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Mineko Iwasaki war die Geiko, die er dafür interviewte. Sie stellt in ihrem Buch alles richtig, was er sich zu dramatischen Zwecken zurechtgeschnitten hat.</blockquote class="" ><blockquote class="" ><a href="/profile/sbuehrle">sbuehrle</a>: I would recommend reading these books back-to-back. 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class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274888320" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2704" data-workid="2704" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>*****WARNING: MAY CAUSE BOOK HANGOVER*****<br><br>This book was absolutely fantastic and I'm sorry I waited so long to read it. It was on my summer reading list in high school, but there were so many good ones on the list that summer that I opted for one of the others, though I can't remember which. After finally picking it up, I'm sorry I did.<br><br>The characters come right off the page and, before long, begin to feel like old friends. So much so, in fact that the closer you get to the end, the less you want to read because you know that your time with them has almost come to a close.<br><br>Golden did a beautiful job of combining historical elements with the little known background and day to day life of Geisha even if, by many accounts, there are inaccuracies. Sayuri (Chiyo) is a whirlwind of emotions and, despite the average person not actually having anything directly in common with her, she is painfully relatable in so many ways. You can't help but adore her. <spoiler> It definitely makes me feel worse that she and Pumpkin couldn't mend their friendship, but clearly cattiness is something that crosses cultures. </spoiler><br><br>Without a doubt, I would strongly recommend this novel to anyone and everyone. It's got a little bit of everything: romance, deception, war, art, family, despair. There's a little something for everyone. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_274888320" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274888320"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_274888320" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_274888320" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_274888320"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/cebellol" target="_top">cebellol</a> | Nov 8, 2024 | <a href="/review/274888320"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274708433" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2704" data-workid="2704" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>My friend Robin sent this book to me shortly after I moved to Tokyo. It was hard to find English-language books at first, so she sent me a couple to keep me reading. I probably would not have been interested in Memoirs of a Geisha had I not just moved to Japan. But I found it to be one of the best books I've ever read.<br><br>When I first started reading the book, I wanted to see what Sayuri looked like, so I did a Google search. It was then that I realized the book I was reading was not a biography, but fiction. Had me fooled! Still, it's easy to imagine that it is a true story. Even though I've only lived in Tokyo for about two months, I see how all of this story could be completely true.<br><br>I love Golden's characters! Pumpkin is so funny. Some of the lines he gives her crack me up! And Sayuri, of course, is an incredible character. Through her stories I laughed and even cried a couple of times. The stories themselves were so plain, just as Japanese people truly speak. The fact that an American man wrote this (and I believe it was his first novel) still amazes me. You'd swear it was really the memoir of a geisha.<br><br>Several nights in a row I stayed up reading until 5am. I just couldn't get enough of this book. I guess partly because of the story, but also in part because there's a little bit of Sayuri in each of us. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss8.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_274708433" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274708433"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_274708433" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_274708433" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_274708433"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/radiojen" target="_top">radiojen</a> | Nov 5, 2024 | <a href="/review/274708433"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_274399544" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2704" data-workid="2704" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div><b>I had seen [b:Memoirs of a Geisha|930|Memoirs of a Geisha|Arthur Golden|https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1388367666l/930._SY75_.jpg|1558965] described many times as the “Perfect Novel” and one of the 100 books you should read before you die, so perhaps my expectations were a little height for this one as I was expecting an emotional read and a novel that would transport me in time and enlighten me to mystery of the Japanese culture of the time but sadly this story while good and well written was too slow moving and an unemotional read <u> for me </u></b><br><br>I had been wanting to read this novel for years and they say <i> “what’s for you won’t pass you by” </i> so when I found this one in a used book shop I felt it was time to finally take this one home. It has been loved by so many of my friends over the years and I really was intrigued by the the lives of Geisha. <br><br>TBH I actually thought this was a true story and only realised about 30% into the book that it was a fictional account. The novel tells the story of a fictional geisha working in Kyoto, Japan before, during and after World War II. I loved the first first 100 pages of this novel, the story starts out strong and the characters and culture is intriguing. I enjoyed the slow pace (to start with) but then the book just seemed to drag and become dreadfully descriptive and I found myself page counting and wishing the the novel was 100 pages shorter. <br>I enjoyed the characters to begin with and yet by the end I was very glad to part company with them.<br><br>The book does offer a fascinating glimpse into the hidden world of the Geisha and this was an aspect of the novel that I really enjoyed and the reason I rated this one 3 stars <b>(which means I liked it but didn't love it)</b> but I am afraid this copy will make its way back to the used book shop and hopefully another reader will enjoy the experience more than me. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_274399544" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_274399544"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_274399544" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_274399544" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_274399544"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/DemFen" target="_top">DemFen</a> | Oct 31, 2024 | <a href="/review/274399544"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_273965933" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2704" data-workid="2704" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Received this as a BookCrossing book from an online friend, and I’m pretty sure that I never would have read it otherwise. It turned out to be pretty good, though.<br><br>I’m not wild about storytelling frames, and I went back and forth on this one. For most of the book it was bothering me, but as she enters the upheavals of WWII, there was something a little reassuring about it. Then again, that’s not necessarily a good thing.<br><br>Aside from the frame, there were some things I really liked and others I really didn’t. It’s a deeply anti-feminist book, in a way. Namely: It seems to me to be a book about how cruel women can be to each other, and how far above it all men are. You might say that that’s inherent in the content, but I don’t necessarily think that it is. There aren’t any real bonds among the girls/women in this book, other than the one counterexample of the protagonist and Mameha. Every other female-female relationship is based on greed, suspicion, revenge, desperation, or outright cruelty. The relationship between men and women, on the other hand, was probably dictated by content. Though it would have been nice to see expectations overturned at least a little bit. The protagonist spends her whole life waiting for a man to save her. Save her from what? Mostly, it seems, from having to live her own life.<br><br>Which brings me to my biggest complaint about the book: Does Chiyo/Sayuri ever actually do anything proactive to further her own cause? I can only think of one thing, and she completely bungles that in a way that any second-grader would have known to avoid. Other than that, she spends the length of the novel as a leaf on the wind, while everyone around her—geisha and non-geisha alike—is working to create some kind of life for him or herself. Part of what bothered me about the frame was that I knew she was going to come out all right in the end, and frankly I didn’t see why she should. I kept waiting for her to do something, and kept getting disappointed.<br><br>OK, so enough about what I didn’t like. I did enjoy the book, believe it or not. Mameha was interesting, as were several other minor characters. But mostly, Golden is quite a writer. There are a couple of spots in the book where the protagonist remembers back to other times in her life, and at those spots I became really aware of just how well the author had described those other times. I could really see and hear everything, both large and small details. That takes some real talent, I think, and some real work. He did a hell of a job. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss6.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_273965933" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_273965933"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_273965933" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_273965933" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_273965933"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/spoko" target="_top">spoko</a> | Oct 24, 2024 | <a href="/review/273965933"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class="bookReview"><div class="bookReview_content"><div id="brtext_270063969" class="commentText brslop"><div class="brev_cover"><a href="/work/2704" data-workid="2704" class="" ><img src="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX100_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg" srcset="https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX200_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 2x, https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/P/1400096898.01._SX300_SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg 3x" class="bookReview_cover cover" /></a></div><div class="commentHeader"></div>Absolutely loved this book! The combination of the characters, the narrative, the history and the culture was intoxicating. I still remember it so well despite reading it nearly twenty years ago. Probably in my top ten novels of all time. <span class="rating">( <img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/ss10.gif"> )</span></div><div id="rfd_270063969" class="reviewFlagDialogBox"></div><div class="commentFooter"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="reviewVoteInfo"><span class="reviewVoteCount" id="rvc_270063969"> </span> </span><span class="reviewFlags"> <img id="rfi1_270063969" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"> <img id="rfi2_270063969" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/flag-trans.gif"><span id="rfrf_270063969"> </span></span></span> <span class="controlItems ci3"><a href="/profile/IgnatiusMeany" target="_top">IgnatiusMeany</a> | Aug 19, 2024 | <a href="/review/270063969"><img src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/permalink.gif" width="16" height="7"></a></span> </div></div></div><div class='reviewnav'><div class="right"><strong><a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,3,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','2704','',false, null, 'profile');return false;">date<span class="sortArrow"> ▼</span></a></strong> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,2,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','2704','',false, null, 'profile'); return false;">votes</a></div>Showing 1-5 of 534 (<a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',5,0,3,'wp_reviews',5,'','2704','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">next</a> | <a href="#" onclick="loadReviewsIntoContainer('',0,0,3,'wp_reviews',10000,'','2704','', false, null, 'profile'); return false;">show all</a>)</div></div></div></div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_53" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><div class="sectionhead_rbutcontainer" style="float: right;"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><span class="sectionTitleHelp"><a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews" class="blacklink" title="Help"><img style="vertical-align:middle;" class="helpIcon" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/helpq.png" alt="?"></a></span></span></div> <a name="publishedreviews"></a><span class="navInfoTitle"><span class="divotBig" onclick="LibraryThing.work.handleSectionHide(this, 'mediareviews', 'u_6d051e62', '0');"><span class="chdivot" style="font-size:9px;vertical-align:bottom;">▼</span></span>Published reviews</span></div><div class="qelcontent" id="u_6d051e62" style="display:block;"><div id="mediareviews_container"><div id="mediareviews"><table class="sa_tools" id="u_400effcc_link"><tr><td id="left">3 reviews</td><td id="center"><a href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'workid':'2704'});return false;">add a review</a></td><td id="right"> thingScore <a href="https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/Published_Reviews"><span class="mre_score mre_score_good">75</span></a></td></tr></table><div class="bookReview" mr_id="339" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_0c9e7024" title="9.0 Stars" aria-title="9.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-uu.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_339" class="commentText">Golden fills the book with vivid images and subtle descriptions of the nuances of Japanese culture, and is absolutely brilliant in his description of the customs and rituals of the geisha. Through the meticulous detail the reader can fully understand the politics, rivalries, and traditions of the Japan geisha society.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/mikeg2">mikeg2</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'339', 'workid':'2704'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://articles.cnn.com/1998-05-25/entertainment/reviews_9805_25_1_geisha-japanese-culture-chiyo?_s=PM:books" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">CNN</span>, <span class="nowrap">Ann Hastings</span></a> <span rawdate="896068800" class="nowrap">(May 25, 1998)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="338" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_331eaf1c" title="7.0 Stars" aria-title="7.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-u.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_338" class="commentText">Mr. Golden gives us not only a richly sympathetic portrait of a woman, but also a finely observed picture of an anomalous and largely vanished world. He has made an impressive and unusual debut.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/jlelliott">jlelliott</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'338', 'workid':'2704'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1997/10/14/books/books-of-the-times-a-woman-s-tale-imagined-by-a-man.html?scp=7&sq=%22memoirs%20of%20a%20geisha%22%20book%20review&st=cse" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The New York Times</span>, <span class="nowrap">Michiko Kakutani</span></a> <span rawdate="876801600" class="nowrap">(Oct 14, 1997)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div><div class="bookReview" mr_id="337" style="font-size:12px;"><span style="float: right; margin: 5px 0px 5px 6px;"><span id="rate-u_9f21cc0b" title="5.0 Stars" aria-title="5.0 Stars" class="rating rating-style-2 " data-fn="ratingWidget_fromSettingsA" ><img class="thumb_rating" src="https://image.librarything.com/pics/mr-du.gif" /></span></span><div id="brtext_337" class="commentText">Haarhuis's foreword and Golden's epilogue, the one appropriating the guise of a novel and the other taking it off, suggest an author who is of two minds when it comes to his work. It is not surprising, then, if his readers share this uncertainty. The decision to write an autobiographically styled novel rather than a nonfiction portrait is most obviously justified in terms of empathy, of allowing greater freedom to explore the geisha's inner life. Unfortunately, Sayuri's personality seems so familiar it is almost generic; she is not so much an individual as a faultless arrangement of feminine virtues.</div><div class="commentFooter" style="clear: right;"><span class="reviewMods"><span class="mredit">added by <a href="/profile/jlelliott">jlelliott</a> | <a title="edit review" href="#" onclick="LibraryThing.mediareviews.edit({'mr_id':'337', 'workid':'2704'});return false;">edit</a></span></span><span class="controlItems"><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/05/reviews/971005.05morleyt.html?scp=4&sq=%22memoirs%20of%20a%20geisha%22%20book%20review&st=cse" target="_top" class="nowrap"><span class="nowrap mre_source">The New York Times</span>, <span class="nowrap">John David Morley</span></a> <span rawdate="876024000" class="nowrap">(Oct 5, 1997)</span></span></div><div style="clear:both;height:1px;"> </div></div></div></div> </div></div></div><div id="workpagesort_56" class="quickedit light flipped"><div class="nav"><a 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After training, Sayuri's virginity is sold to the highest bidder, then the school finds her a general for a patron. 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It is not a review.' ><div class='fwikiItem divdescription'><div class='fwikiItemText fwikiItemTextLong fwikiItemTextUnknownUser'><div class="fwikiAtomicValue" style="min-height:12px;" >A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. 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. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York; it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. 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