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Golden, Arthur, 1957- - Author
London : Vintage, 2007 - ix, 497 s. ; 18 cm
ISBN 978-0-09-949818-6
americké rományCall number C 392.450 Title statement Memoirs of a geisha / Arthur Golden Main entry-name Golden, Arthur, 1957- (Author) Issue data London : Vintage, 2007 Phys.des. ix, 497 s. ; 18 cm ISBN 978-0-09-949818-6 Form, Genre americké romány Conspect 821.111(73)-3 - Americká próza UDC 821.111(73)-31 , (0:82-31) Country Velká Británie Language angličtina Document kind BOOKS A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men. Zdroj anotace: Web obalkyknih.czLoading…
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