Now a major motion picture starring Ziyi Zhang ( House of Flying Daggers), Ken Watanabe ( The Last Samurai), Michelle Yeoh ( Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Koji Yakusho ( Shall We Dance?), Youki Kudoh ( The Wind Carpet), Kaori Momoi ( Solntse), and Gong Li ( Raise the Red Lantern), and directed by Rob Marshall. He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children. Following a summer at Beijing University, he worked in Tokyo, and, after returning to the United States, earned an M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia University, where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. An impressive and unusual debut." - The New York TimesĪrthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at Harvard College, where he received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. Memoirs of a Geisha immerses the reader in an exotic world. Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work-suspenseful, and utterly persuasive. The bestselling novel was a long time in the making Golden spent more than ten years on the novel, throwing out the first two drafts before finding his 'voice' in the first-person account that was a publishing success. It is a unique and triumphant work of ctionat once romantic, erotic, suspensefuland completely unforgettable. Memoirs of a Geisha, published in 1997, is Arthur Golden's debut novel. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount where a girls virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men and where love is scorned as illusion. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. Movie: Memoirs of a Geisha Romaji: Sayuri Japanese: Director: Rob Marshall Writer: Robin Swicord, Arthur Golden (book) Producer: Gary Barber, Roger. A young nine year old girl, Chiyo, lives in a rather poor fishing village, Yoroido, on Japans coast. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount where a girls virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder where women are. Find out more about the movie soundtrack.You are seduced completely." - The Washington Post Book World Her new family then sends her off to school to. Photos © 2005 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc. Memoirs of a Geisha tells the story of a young girl, Chiyo Sakamoto, who is sold into slavery by her family.
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