This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience.
Her Memoirs conjure up the perfection and.
She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house.
It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan\'s dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.
This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience