Arthur Golden

À neuf ans, dans le Japon d''avant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Sayuri est vendue par son père, un modeste pêcheur, à une maison de plaisir de Kyoto. Dotée d''extraordinaires yeux bleus, la petite fil

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. Her memoirs conjure 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 land''s most powerful men.This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience, summoning up a quarter century of Japan''s dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

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An epic on an intimate scale, Memoirs of a Geisha takes the reader behind the rice-paper screens of the geisha house to a vanished floating world of beauty and cruelty, from a poor fishing village in 1929 to the decadence of 1940s Kyoto, through the chaos of World War II to the towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the gray-eyed geisha Sayuri unfolds the remarkable story of her life.

An epic on an intimate scale, Memoirs of a Geisha takes the reader behind the rice-paper screens of the geisha house to a vanished floating world of beauty and cruelty, from a poor fishing village in 1929 to the decadence of 1940s Kyoto, through the chaos of World War II to the towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the gray-eyed geisha Sayuri unfolds the remarkable story of her life.

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 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.

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.

Poco antes de su muerte, Sayuri, una anciana japonesa afincada en Nueva York, cuenta la historia de su vida a un joven amigo americano. El poder de seducción de la voz narrativa de esta geisha legendaria transporta al lector a un Japon de entre guerras, lleno todavia de ecos feudales, y a una de las tradiciones japonesas que mas curiosidad inspiran en el mundo occidental: la de la geisha, una peculiar practica cultural a la que estan ligadas artes tales como la seduccion, la danza, la pintura o la clasica ceremonia del te.

En Memorias de una geisha Arthur Golden abre una ventana a al hermético y misterioso mundo de las geishas de Kyoto, donde la sensualidad y la belleza se dan la mano con la degradación y el sometimiento. Poco antes de su muerte, Sayuri relata a un amigo su atribulada y fascinante vida: como, desde una misera infancia, llego a convertirse en una de las geishas mas famosas del Japon de entreguerras, un pais en el que aun resonaban los ecos feudales y donde las tradiciones ancestrales empezaban a convivir con los modos del mundo moderno. Apasionante y sorprendente, Memorias de una geisha ha batido records de permanencia en las listas de superventas de todo el mundo y conquistado a lectores en mas de veintiseis idiomas. Su publicacion en SUMA coincide con el estreno en España de la superproduccion basada en esta novela.

In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how the lovely child, Chiyo, became the accomplished and much sought-after geisha Sayuri, with the help of a kindly mentor and despite the malice of a rival; and of how Sayuri struggled to balance professional success as a courtesan with the demands of her heart. Adapted into a 2005 movie starring Zhang Yiyi as the protagonist, this bestselling debut novel opened up a world hitherto unknown to most Westerners and sparked new interest in Japan and its culture.

Poco antes de su muerte, Sayuri, una anciana japonesa afincada en Nueva York, cuenta la historia de su vida a un joven amigo americano. El poder de seducción de la voz narrativa de esta geisha legendaria transporta al lector a un Japon de entreguerras, lleno todavia de ecos feudales, y a una de las tradiciones japonesas que mas curiosidad inspiran en el mundo occidental: la de la geisha. Encuadernacion: Rustica.