Memoirs of a GeishaSeductive, evocative, exquisite intimate memoirs spanning half a century of Japanese history, revealing a closed world. 'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation