Memoirs of a Geisha
Sayuri recounts her life story from a New York hotel, beginning when she was taken from her poor fishing village at age nine and sold to a geisha house in Kyoto's Gion district in 1929. The narrative spans several decades through World War II and beyond, depicting her journey through an extraordinary world of tradition, beauty, and complex social dynamics in pre-war and post-war Japan.
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