Memoirs of a Geisha - Artur Golden

This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning up a quarter centruy, from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window onto a half-hidden worls of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

"Memoirs of a Geisha is the sort of novel that novel-lovers yearn for, which is to say, so convincing that while reading it you become transported to another time, another place, and feel you're listening and seeing with someone else's ears and eyes' " - Margaret Forster