Memoirs of a Geisha, by Arthur Golden

"I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha... I'm a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan." Beginning in a poor fishing village in 1929, Memoirs of a Geisha chronicles the life of nine-year-old Chiyo, born with blue-gray eyes, and sold with her sister into the slave life of being a geisha after her mother's death. Lost in this new world where a girls virginity is sold to …

…reading the book I had to delve deeper into the geisha world, which still exists in modern day Japan. Memoirs of a Geisha has become one of my all time favorite books, it plays over and over in your head even after completion, and I anxiously await Arthur Golden's next work. Would I recommend this book? Definitely, I would even go so far as to buy it for the non-believers. It is truly a masterpiece.