Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller [1998] paperback ZLGBT BBC Breakfast

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Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller [1998] paperback ZLGBT BBC Breakfast'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history. 'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose