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Memoirs of a Geisha
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Ammar
Feb 18, 2012 rated it really liked it  ·  review of another edition
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Interesting read... yet the general theme is a bit boring... virginity and sex or maybe a high class though not prostitution..something classy with style..rules..ethics... I wished the book was called Memoirs of a Geisha: How much my virginity is worth.

Its exotic...not too complex..not shallow...wish there was more action..more anguish..Thanks Reem for the recommendation.
Booknblues
The geisha seems to flow slowly and gracefully as she moves along her chosen path and that is the way Arthur Golden's novel Memoirs of a Geisha moves. The pace is slow and graceful unwinding like a low land river with nothing hurried or rushed. It is the story about a young Japanese girl is sold to an okiya or a geisha house. She would eventually become a geisha by the name of Sayuri.

Sayuri's story in many ways is a Cinderella story complete with a wicked stepmother and stepsister. It is of cour
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