Geisha of Gion av Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

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<B>The extraordinary, bestselling memoir from Japan's foremost geisha.</B><BR/><B>'A glimpse into the exotic, mysterious, tinged-with-eroticism world of the almost mythical geisha' Val Hennessy, <I>Daily Mail</I></B><BR/><B>'[An] eloquent and innovative memoir' <I>The Times</I></B><BR/><BR/>'I can identify the exact moment when things began to change. It was a cold winter afternoon. I had just turned three.'<BR/><BR/> Emerging shyly from her hiding place, Mineko encounters Madam Oima, the formidable proprietress of a prolific geisha house in Gion. Madam Oima is mesmerised by the child's black hair and black eyes: she has found her successor. And so Mineko is gently, but firmly, prised away from her parents to embark on <B>an extraordinary profession</B>, of which she will become the best. But even if you are exquisitely beautiful and the darling of the okiya, the life of a geisha is one of gruelling demands. And Mineko must first contend with her b