Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller [1998] paperback ZLGBT 'This is Connelly on top

'This is Connelly on top form

So when her sister arranges for her to emigrate to New York

is given the opportunity to travel to Australia as the companion of the wealthy Mrs McCrombie

a freshman

as threats to the kingdom loom

Arthur Golden: Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller [1998] paperback ZLGBT 'This is Connelly on top'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 and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history. 'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose