Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki

Geisha: A Life

Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown (Translator)

320 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--until now. Many say I was the best geisha of my generation, writes Mineko Iwasaki. And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting t...

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informative 89%
reflective 55%
emotional 50%
inspiring 33%
challenging 10%
funny 10%
lighthearted 8%
sad 8%
hopeful 7%
adventurous 4%
relaxing 4%
dark 1%
mysterious 1%
tense 1%

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slow 35%
fast 14%

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