How does Chiyo/Sayuri break her arm in Arthur Golden's Memoirs of a Geisha ?
a. A drunken man grabs her during a performance.
b. One of Mother's beatings goes awry.
c. She breaks it herself to get out of her maid's work.
d. She falls off a roof trying to escape Gion.
e. Hatsumomo gets too rough with her.
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a. A drunken man grabs her during a performance.
b. One of Mother's beatings goes awry.
c. She breaks it herself to get out of her maid's work.
d. She falls off a roof trying to escape Gion.
e. Hatsumomo gets too rough with her.
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Arthur Golden
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January 01, 1956
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place of birth
Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Arthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at Harvard College, where he received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980 he earned an M.A. in Japanese history from Columbia University, where he also learned Mandarin Chinese. Following a summer in Beijing University, he worked in Tokyo, and, after returning to the United States, earned an M.A. in English from Boston University. He resides in Brookline, Massachusetts, with his wife and two children.
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Walt Whitman by Arthur Golden avg rating 4.50 — 2 ratings — published 1973 |
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Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems (Volumes 1-3) by Sculley Bradley, Arthur Golden, Harold W. Blodgett avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1980 |
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"Adversity is like a strong wind. I don't mean just that it holds us back from places we might otherwise go. It also tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that afterward we see ourselves as we really are, and not merely as we might like to be. (Memoirs of a Geisha 348)"
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"If you aren't the woman I think you are, then this isn't the world I thought it was."
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— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
"At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it."
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— Arthur Golden (Memoirs of a Geisha)
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