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Geisha books6/1/2023 Chiyo's position is one of indentured servitude: she may not leave until she has repaid all of her living expenses and even her original purchase cost. Hatsumomo, however, threatened by Chiyo's beauty, treats her with unrestrained cruelty. There she is trained in the arts of dance, singing and the tea ceremony. Sold as a child by her financially desperate father, Chiyo is placed in a house for geisha as the personal maid to Hatsumomo, one of Kyoto's most sought-after geisha. In the process, Golden evokes the spectrum of traditional Japanese society. Golden effortlessly spins the tale as the dictated autobiography of quick-witted Chiyo Sakamoto, the daughter of a poor fisherman, who attains the pinnacle of geisha success. The life of a famous Kyoto geisha-from her painful apprenticeship in the early 1930s through the years of her prime and her later career in Manhattan-is rendered with stunning clarity in this fully imagined first novel.
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