6/2/2023 0 Comments Geisha books![]() ![]() Chiyo's position is one of indentured servitude: she may not leave until she has repaid all of her living expenses and even her original purchase cost. ![]() Hatsumomo, however, threatened by Chiyo's beauty, treats her with unrestrained cruelty. There she is trained in the arts of dance, singing and the tea ceremony. Sold as a child by her financially desperate father, Chiyo is placed in a house for geisha as the personal maid to Hatsumomo, one of Kyoto's most sought-after geisha. ![]() In the process, Golden evokes the spectrum of traditional Japanese society. Golden effortlessly spins the tale as the dictated autobiography of quick-witted Chiyo Sakamoto, the daughter of a poor fisherman, who attains the pinnacle of geisha success. The life of a famous Kyoto geisha-from her painful apprenticeship in the early 1930s through the years of her prime and her later career in Manhattan-is rendered with stunning clarity in this fully imagined first novel. ![]()
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