This is a rare and utterly engaging story. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha - summoning UP a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan's dramatic history~ and opening a window onto a half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation.
'Endlessly fascinating...a narrative that is both gripping and beautifully paced...a wonderful read' Observer
'This is a high-wire act...Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been evoked with such natural assurance' New Yorker
'This is an epic tale and a beautiful evocation of a rapidly vanishing world' The Times
'Sayuri's memoirs reveal Golden to have great gifts of imaginative empathy.., fascinating' Independent
