A review by louthefog
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

0.25

i don’t understand why people like this book so much, he deformed so much about japanese history and what it was to be a geisha and romanticized what shouldn’t be romanticized. it’s just a white man who listened to an actual geisha tell him her life story and then deformed it so much she rejected the book and then published her own. i’d recommend reading instead the book written by a japanese author Yuki Inoue that’s so much deeper and more interesting, accurate and respectful of the experience of being a geisha and living through the events that marked 19th and 20th century japan.