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2008, ISBN: 1435288041
[SR: 9581092], Library Binding, [EAN: 9781435288041], Book, 2008-05-22, According to Arthur Golden's absorbing first novel, the word "geisha" does not mean "prostitute," as Westerners ign… Mehr…
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The result is a novel with the broad social canvas (and love of coincidence) of Charles Dickens and Jane Austen's intense attention to the nuances of erotic maneuvering. Readers experience the entire life of a geisha, from her origins as an orphaned fishing-village girl in 1929 to her triumphant auction of her mizuage (virginity) for a record price as a teenager to her reminiscent old age as the distinguished mistress of the powerful patron of her dreams. We discover that a geisha is more analogous to a Western "trophy wife" than to a prostitute--and, as in Austen, flat-out prostitution and early death is a woman's alternative to the repressive, arcane system of courtship. In simple, elegant prose, Golden puts us right in the tearoom with the geisha; we are there as she gracefully fights for her life in a social situation where careers are made or destroyed by a witticism, a too-revealing (or not revealing enough) glimpse of flesh under the kimono, or a vicious rumour spread by a rival "as cruel as a spider."
Golden's web is finely woven, but his book has a serious flaw: the geisha's true romance rings hollow--the love of her life is a symbol, not a character. Her villainous geisha nemesis is sharply drawn, but she would be more so if we got a deeper peek into the cause of her motiveless malignity--the plight all geisha share. Still, Golden has won the triple crown of fiction: he has created a plausible female protagonist in a vivid, now-vanished world and he gloriously captures Japanese culture by expressing his thoughts in authentic Eastern metaphors.
Detailangaben zum Buch - Memoirs of a Geisha (Vintage International)
EAN (ISBN-13): 9781435288041
ISBN (ISBN-10): 1435288041
Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
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ISBN/EAN: 1435288041
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1-4352-8804-1, 978-1-4352-8804-1
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Autor des Buches: golden
Titel des Buches: geisha
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