Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara.
She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival.
In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess. In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. His most recent adaptation for Netflix, Stay Close, premiered on Decemand stars Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage.more His books have earned the Edgar, Shamus, and Anthony Awards, and many have been developed into Netflix Original Drama series, including his adaptations of The Stranger, The Innocent, Gone for Good and The Woods. His suspense novels are published in forty-five languages and have been number one bestsellers in more than a dozen countries with seventy-five million books in print worldwide. Harlan Coben is a #1 New York Times bestselling author and one of the world's leading storytellers. His most recent adaptation for Netflix, Stay Close, premiered on Decemand stars Cush Jumbo, James Nesbitt, and Richard Armitage.
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