This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house...
This story is a rare and utterly engaging experience. It tells the extraordinary story of a geisha -summoning up a quarter century from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history, and opening a window into a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later from the Waldorf Astoria in New York. Her memoirs conjure up the perfection and the ugliness of life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most land's powerful men.
作者简介
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Arthur Golden was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and was educated at Harvard College.
原文摘录
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"You may apologize, if you wish."
I backed away from the table and bowed low to the mats; but before I had a chance to say anything at all, Mameha interrupted me.
"That would be a lovely bow, if only you were a farmer visiting Kyoto for the first time," she said. "But since you want to appear cultivated, you must do it like this. Look at me; move farther away from the table. All right, there you are on your knees; now straighten out your arms and put your fingertips onto the mats in front of you. Just the tips of your fingers; not your whole hand. And you mustn't spread your fingers at all; I can still see space between them. Very well, put them on the mats . . . hands together . . . there! Now that looks lovely. Bow as low as you can, but keep your neck perfectly straight, don't let you... (查看原文)
从灵性的角度来说，我个人是很倾向于亲近水的那种。在我今年以来人生低谷的时候，水一直陪伴着我，是我在这里最可靠最好的朋友。关于水的描述，让我意识到，人生就像一片大海，大多数时候其实我们都是在go with the flow，即使这样也还是有很多waves，有许多你需要去fight back...
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0 有用 有千千萬萬個我 2006-04-30 18:10:21
中六時朋友借閱
0 有用 虫二小姐 2011-03-19 21:54:17
文字比电影好上太多. the onion life is a miserable one.
0 有用 戮世摩羅史仗義 2013-10-03 23:23:48
Not necessary to comment on it. Philosophy、history 、military fit me more.
0 有用 希鲮鱼 2020-04-11 20:51:41
某学期政治课上读了整整一学期（
0 有用 033 2014-12-12 15:56:28
So beautiful metaphors and words.