Autobiography of a Geisha
by:
Sayo Masuda (author)
G.G. Rowley (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780231129503 (0231129505)
Publish date: April 16th 2003
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Pages no: 216
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Asian Literature,
Asia,
Biography Memoir,
Japan,
Japanese Literature
Autobiography of a Geisha is the true life story of Sayo Masuda. She was sold to a geisha house when she was twelve years old. She became a full geisha at the age of sixteen. This book is so... raw and honest. My heart ached for Sayo throughout the book. She had a hard life, yet she had the courage ...
Not just a good book, but an important one.Sayo Masuda's memoir gives an unembellished, unromanticized view of what it was really like to live and work as a geisha. It's a story of extreme poverty and oppression, but her resilience, spirit and humor shine through. It feels to me as though translator...
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