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A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha.Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha.
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“Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, "That afternoon when I met so-and-so . . . was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon.”
Arthur Sulzberger Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel *Memoirs of a Geisha* (1997).
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“Is the polish hiding a lack of heart?”
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“Is Memoirs of a Geisha a masterpiece, not merely a very good book?”
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“Is Memoirs of a Geisha too earnest?”
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