Memoirs of a Geisha: The Literary Sensation and Runaway Bestseller - Arthur Golden (Paperback) 04-06-1998 Winner of Whitaker Gold Book Award 2001. Runner-up for The BBC Big Read Top 100 2003. Short-listed for BBC Big Read Top 100 2003.

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 it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday