This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a wiаэъзоndow onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation "Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha with such gentle courtesy and determination that you are quickly brought under the spell of her character She takes you by tблшгуhe hand and leads you into a world that is both formal and intimate, a world that I had only before glimpsed in the fleeting and beautiful images of traditional Japanese ink painting "Memoirs of a Geisha" is a wonderful achievement" Julia Blackburn Автор Артур Голден Arthur Golden.