Emotional, thrilling and sensual... (Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden)

Member Name: chickychick

Product:	Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
Date:	23/04/06 (152 review reads)
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Advantages: Attracted from the beginning to the end

Disadvantages: none

I'm not a native English-speaking person and "Memoirs of a Geisha" was the first novel I read fully. The novel reveals to you a great deal about a geisha's life which is kept in the dark for many people. It also tells you about the hiden love story of a geisha. The story is a good combination of sensuality, emotions and thrill at the same time.
I kept reading it without any boredom from the start to the end. This is a great book! Recommended!

I would tell a little more about this story. It tells about the life of a small girl, Chiyo, in a small Japanese village, of course very long ago. After the death of her mother, his father allowed a businessman in the village to bring Chiyo and her sister to a big city to get training for being a geisha. Chiyo and her sister then were seperated from each other when approaching the city.
Chiyo had to live in a geisha house called okiya and had to work very hard. She was sent to the geisha school to be trained professionally. Many conflicts happened after that between Chiyo and a matured geisha in the same house, who later tried to destroy Chiyo's geisha career.
Chiyo fell in love with a successful businessman who is called "Chairman" in the novel. Her love was kept secret by herself almost the story and went through many obstables, including the Second World War when she had to pause her career due to the evacuation.

I like many small details in the story. Some are even very funny. For example, when Mameha- a very successful geisha who took charge of training Chiyo- explained her about sex, she said that a woman had a hole, a man had an eel and an eel definitely needed a shelter to rest :)

The novel also gives you a broad knowledge about how a geisha lived and worked. This is kind of amazing because the author is an American. He had worked hard for 10 years to write up this novel and it's definitely worth his long decade.

Summary: The life and love story of a geisha