If Mother and Granny approve of her she will be trained as a Geisha. Chiyo begins her life in the Okiya as a servant where she must win the approval of those who now own her who she knows as Mother and Granny. The story is told from the first person perspective of the younger sister who is called Chiyo. The story then moves to a geisha house in Kyoto where the youngest of the two sisters starts her new life. The father is a poor fisherman and when the mother falls sick a local successful businessman suggests sending the two daughters to the city for a new life which the father eventually agrees to. This book begins in a small fishing village in a shack where there live two sisters and their parents. This book has been sat on my TBR list since 2019 and due to an unexpected hour long break at work where I found myself without a book I fired up the Kindle app on my phone and began reading this book and then found I couldn’t put it down.
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It conjures up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha – dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York it exquisitely evokes another culture, a different time and the details of an extraordinary way of life. From a small fishing village in 1929, the tale moves to the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s, where a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan’s most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. This is a seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, which tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl.
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