'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house.
The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s. "Exceptional and erotic" "Literary Review". "Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose, it is a novel whose pyschological empathy and historical truths are outstanding" "Mail On Sunday".
