Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden Reviews

This book is a true masterpiece. Arthur Golden has taken a factual account of the life of a geisha (Mineko Iwasaki) and embelleshed it into a book spanning the life of the ficticious, beautiful, bright and successful geisha Nitta Sayuri. You cannot help but fall headfirst into this book, with it's rich accounts of a life so alien to ...

A most prelific insight into the life and goings on of one of the best kept secrets of japanese history. The life of a geisha is described at best of a constant struggle which can only be best understand with the passion and perserverance that the young girl undergoes throughout her life to strive for love, affection and freedom. The ...

Originally Published by Vintage UK in 1998. ISBN: 0-09-977151-9 Fiction UK RRP £7,99 Even though the book was published 10 years ago I don't think many people will have read it until the film was released. This book counts as fiction but is actually a translation of an anonymous ...

I am so glad that i decided to read the book as well as watching the film the book is brilliantly deatailed with happieness saddness and everything in between. But the film misses huge importants chunks out that if added would of in my opinion made the film a whole lot better. The book is about two sisters who are sold to different geisha houses ...

I had never read Arthur Golden before, although I was tempted to read this book through recommendation. Thus I had no pre-conceptions of the writing style of the author. Neither had I seen the film, and although I bought the film, was glad that I decided to read the book first, since the film pales in comparison. The story tells of ...

This heart rending, evocative and often funny novel was written by American author Arthur Golden. It is a fictional work but is backed up by some pretty solid research. The novel is the story of a young Japanese girl and her training to be a Geisha. A Geisha was trained in music, art, conversation and entertainment. Contrary to popular ...

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 ...

I first came across this book about 6 years ago and read it then and I have now read it again. It was as great an experience second time around. Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is a fictional book written in the form of a memoir as the name suggests, by the former geisha in Kyoto, Japan. And strangely enough it was written by a ...

'Memoirs of a Geisha' by Arthur Golden is an enchanting story which follows the life of a beautiful, young Japanese girl named Chiyo in her quest to become a geisha. The story begins in 1929 in Chiyo's birth town of Yoroido, a small fishing village on the Sea of Japan. Chiyo lives here until the age of nine, with her mother, father and sister ...

As the final week of my first year at uni was drawing to an end, during a shopping trip to Newcastle with my boyfriend I decided to treat myself to some new books to keep my mind occupied when I was at home. For me, Waterstone’s is an Aladdin’s cave and the books are its jewels. With the offer of 3 for 2 on ‘Summer reads’ ...

?Memoirs of a Geisha? by Arthur Golden was one of the most talked-about books of the 1990s. It sat at the top of the bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic for an age. You couldn?t get on a bus, train or tube without seeing someone lost in its pages. I got around to reading it myself a couple of weeks ago, finally finding out for myself ...

For a long time now, I've been intrigued by all things Japanese. The Japanese way of life, the language, the writing system - I find it all fascinating. Recently, I have started to learn Japanese at evening classes and one of my major ambitions in life is to one day travel to Japan and spend time travelling around. So, when I saw this book on ...

I've not been very well today. I've not been well for a while, but shrugged it of with thoughts of more important things that needed doing and struggled along with my head feeling as thought it was filled with water. Yesterday however, the important things were all done, after dragging my poor body out of bed early enough to ring work and ...

an amazing book - Advantages: the book left a hugh impression on me, i have to say that the author did an amazing and beatiful job - Disadvantages: non

I think one rason for reading is an interst in those who are different from us, and often the more different and exotic, the more interesting. Orriental cultures tend to have an aura of mystery about them, and none more so than the very secretive and strange world of the Geisha. While this book is a work of fiction (although at the outset it will ...

I have always been interested in the cultures of the east such as Japan, Korea and China so when a friend told me about this book I knew that I simply had to read it. As the title suggests, this book focuses on a increasingly rare group of women known as Geisha. So first of all – what is a Geisha? Well, many people describe them as ...

To be honest with you, I feel cheated. I bought this book because I believed it was a geisha's diary. I thought the author novelized her story, maybe excluding events that were boring or not very interesting for Occidental readers. Most of all, I thought this woman lived a very special life so that her memoirs were worth publishing! ...

I initially got this book as part of a 'package' when I signed up for a book club because, even though I hadn't heard of the author before, the title interested me, and I was pleasantly surprised when I read it. I read avidly, and one of the things in general about male authors is that few can write as women and sound ...

I was recommended "Memoirs of a Geisha" by a friend, I was a but dubious about reading it, but after reading the first few pages I found it difficult to put down. You find yourself becoming more and more emersed in the world, you start to picture everything in your head such as all the different people and clothing described in the ...

'Memoirs of a Geisha' seems to have been on the bestseller list at many bookshops since its first UK publication in 1998. It's by no means the first book on the subject, but it's undeniably the most popular. In fact, several years before the publication of 'Memoirs', Liza Dalby, the only American woman ever to become a ...