Arthur Golden

Las confesiones de Sayuri, una de las más hermosas geishas del Japón de entreguerras. Poco antes de su muerte, Sayuri, una anciana japonesa afincada en Nueva York, cuenta la historia de su vida a un joven amigo americano. El poder de seduccion de la voz narrativa de esta geisha legendaria transporta al lector a un Japon de entreguerras, lleno todavia de ecos feudales, y a una de las tradiciones japonesas que mas curiosidad inspiran en el mundo occidental: la de la geisha, una peculiar practica cultural a la que estan ligadas artes tales como la seduccion, la danza, la pintura o la clasica ceremonia del te. Memorias de una geisha ha batido records de permanencia en las listas de superventas de todo el mundo y ha conquistado a lectores en veintiseis idiomas. La critica ha dicho..."Memorias de una geisha sumerge al lector en un mundo exotico."The New York Times "Asombrosa, impresionante... Absolutamente seductora."The Washigton Post Book World

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A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the land's most powerful men.This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience, summoning up a quarter century of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.

An epic on an intimate scale, Memoirs of a Geisha takes the reader behind the rice-paper screens of the geisha house to a vanished floating world of beauty and cruelty, from a poor fishing village in 1929 to the decadence of 1940s Kyoto, through the chaos of World War II to the towers of the Waldorf Astoria Hotel, where the gray-eyed geisha Sayuri unfolds the remarkable story of her life.

One of People Magazines Best AudioBooks of 1997 An alluring tour de force: a brilliant debut novel told with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism as the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and startlingly immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. In Memoirs of a Geisha, we enter a world where appearances are paramount; where a girl's virginity is auctioned to the highest bidder; where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men; and where love, always elusive, is scorned as illusion. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. Through her eyes, we see the decadent heart of Gion--the geisha district of Kyoto--with its marvelous teahouses and theaters, narrow back alleys, ornate temples, and artists' streets. And we witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha: dance and music; wearing kimono, elaborate makeup and hair; pouring sake to reveal just a touch of inner wrist; competing with a jealous rival for men's solicitude and the money that goes with it. But as World War II erupts and the geisha houses are forced to close, Sayuri, with little money and even less food, must reinvent herself all over again to find a rare kind of freedom on her own terms. Memoirs of a Geisha is a book of nuances and vivid metaphor, of memorable characters rendered with humor and pathos. And though the story is rich with detail and a vastknowledge of history, it is the transparent, seductive voice of Sayuri that the reader remembers. A dazzling literary achievement of empathy and grace by an extraordinary new writer.

Die achtjährige Chiyo lebt in einem armseligen japanischen Fischernest. Als die Mutter im Sterben liegt, verkauft der Vater seine Tochter, die eine außergewöhnliche Schönheit zu werden verspricht, an ein Geisha-Haus in der alten Kaiserstadt Kyoto. Hier absolviert sie im mörderischen Konkurrenzkampf mit anderen Mädchen die harte Ausbildung zur Geisha. Mit seinem Roman führt der amerikanische Autor Arthur Golden in eine Welt, die es so nur in Japan gibt.01Arthur Golden, geboren 1957 in Tennessee, studierte in Harvard Kunstgeschichte mit Schwerpunkt japanischer Kultur und an der Columbia University japanische Geschichte. Danach verbrachte er mehrere Jahre in Japan. Der Roman "Die Geisha" ist sein erstes Buch, zu dem ihn eine alte Geisha inspirierte, eine gute Freundin seiner Großmutter. Über zehn Jahre hat er daran gearbeitet. Der Autor lebt heute mit seiner Frau und zwei Kindern in Brookline, Massachussetts.

Memòries d'una geisha explica la vida de Nitta Sayuri, una filla pobra de pescadors que als nou anys és venuda com a esclava a una casa de geishes de Kyoto. Al llarg de la seva iniciació, Sayuri ha d'aprendre a cantar i ballar, a vestir i maquillar-se, a insinuar els seus encants als homes i servir el te cerimoniosament. La jove geisha viu dividada entre el desig de retrobar la seva família i la necessitat de sobreviure en un món en què la virginitat d'una noia és subhastada al millor postor.

In 1929, a poor fisherman sells his nine-year-old daughter to an elite geisha house in Kyoto. So begins the remarkable first-person account of how the lovely child, Chiyo, became the accomplished and much sought-after geisha Sayuri, with the help of a kindly mentor and despite the malice of a rival; and of how Sayuri struggled to balance professional success as a courtesan with the demands of her heart. Adapted into a 2005 movie starring Zhang Yiyi as the protagonist, this bestselling debut novel opened up a world hitherto unknown to most Westerners and sparked new interest in Japan and its culture.

Historia de Sayuri Nitta, hija pobre de pescadores que a los nueve años es vendida como esclava a una casa de geishas de Kyoto.