Geisha, a Life by Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

Geisha, a Life

Mineko Iwasaki, Rande Brown

297 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir informative slow-paced

Description

"No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story. We have been constrained by unwritten rules not to do so, by the robes of tradition and by the sanctity of our exclusive calling...But I...

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informative 95%
reflective 53%
emotional 46%
inspiring 23%
lighthearted 11%
funny 9%
challenging 6%
relaxing 6%
sad 4%
adventurous 2%
hopeful 2%
tense 2%

Pace

medium 48%
slow 39%
fast 11%

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