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. Find out more about the movie soundtrack.You are seduced completely." - The Washington Post Book World Photos © 2005 Columbia TriStar Marketing Group, Inc.
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