The book is about the 25 years of her life. It is a great way of reading, to completely (try to) sympathize with the main-character. You even feel sympathy for her when she is sad and feel happy for her when she is too. I like this way of writing because you can take a very deep look into the main-character and you really get to know her. Sayuri/Chiyo is the narrator of the story, which makes her the I person of the book but at the same time Sayuri already knows what is going to happen. Interviews with a number of geisha, including Mineko Iwasaki, provided background information about the world of the geisha. The novel Memoirs of a Geisha was written over 10-year period during which Golden rewrote the entire novel three times, changing the point of view before finally settling on the first person viewpoint of Sayuri. He has a son and a daughter.Īfter its release in 1997, Memoirs of a Geisha spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list. When he returned to the United States, he earned an M.A. After a summer at Peking University in Beijing, he worked in Tokyo. in Japanese history at Columbia University, and learned Mandarin Chinese. After his graduating in 1974 he attended Harvard University and received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. Golden was born in Tennessee and grew up in Georgia. He is a member of the family who owns the New York Timers. Arthur Golden (born December 6, 1956) is an American writer.

The author of this book is Arthur Golden. A kind of biography of her, from when she was a child to what she is at the end of the story. The book is about the life of geisha’s in Tokyo. The title of the book is very easy to explain.

It is written by Arthur Golden and first published in the year 1997. The title of the book is “Memoirs of a Geisha”.

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