Format: Paperback, 428 pages
Publisher: Vintage
Publication date: February 1999
ISBN-13: 9780679781585
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Rating: ☆☆☆☆☆
A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl.
From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house.
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Review
While it was a good book and I enjoyed it, there was just too much pain and suffering in it. The poor wee soul had it rough and the book just brought me down.
I (think) it’s meant to be a happy ending but overall it just left me very sad. Every page I turned I thought “hopefully THIS will be the break she deserves”….but sadly it was usually just more unfairness and sadness.
It’s packed with cultural reference which is interesting and if even half of the practices are ture……….they were rough times indeed.
Rating
| Characters | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Plot | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Pacing | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
| Writing | ☆☆☆☆☆ |
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