In this literary tour de force, novelist Arthur Golden enters a remote and shimmeringly exotic world. For the protagonist of this peerlessly observant first novel is Sayuri, one of Japan's most celebrated geisha, a woman who is both performer and courtesan, slave and goddess.
We follow Sayuri from her childhood in an impoverished fishing village, where in 1929, she is sold to a representative of a geisha house, who is drawn by the child's unusual blue-grey eyes. From there she is taken to Gion, the pleasure district of Kyoto. She is nine years old. In the years that follow, as she works to pay back the price of her purchase, Sayuri will be schooled in music and dance, learn to apply the geisha's elaborate makeup, wear elaborate kimono, and care for a coiffure so fragile that it requires a special pillow. She will also acquire a magnanimous tutor and a venomous rival. Surviving the intrigues of her trade and the upheavals of war, the resourceful Sayuri is a romantic heroine on the order of Jane Eyre and Scarlett O'Hara. And Memoirs of a Geisha is a triumphant work - suspenseful, and utterly persuasive.
"Astonishing . . . breathtaking . . . You are seduced completely."
--Washington Post Book World
"Captivating, minutely imagined . . . a novel that refuses to stay shut."
--Newsweek
"A story with the social vibrancy and narrative sweep of a much-loved 19th century bildungsroman. . . . This is a high-wire act. . . . Rarely has a world so closed and foreign been evoked with such natural assurance."
--The New Yorker
阿瑟·高顿(Arthur Golden),生于美国田纳西州查塔努加(Chattanooga),本科毕业于哈佛大学艺术史系,专攻日本艺术。1980年,获哥伦比亚大学日本史硕士学位,兼修中文。在北京大学进修一个夏季之后,他到东京工作。回到美国后他在波士顿大学获英文硕士学位。目前他与妻子和两个孩子定居马萨诸塞州布鲁克林。《艺伎回忆录》是其发表的第一部长篇小说。
在我读过的为数不多的欧美小说中,《艺妓回忆录》算是最对我胃口的一本了,可能我的口味太过东方,那种细腻的、娓娓道来的叙述,浓郁的艺妓文化、东瀛风情,只言片语里都有着浓浓的东方味儿。 在一个单追求阅读快感的普通读者看来, 这本小说具有足够的可...
评分 评分This is a beautifully written story. I like the language used by geisha. Their job is to "entertain" people, to make people feel pleasant. This is really art in everyday life however in real life people too often don't pay much attention to other people's f...
评分整部小说的剧情其实很简单,就是一个底层女性奋斗追求真爱故事,然而带上了艺妓的标签,总让人萌生一探究竟的冲动。 艺妓回忆录是一个爱情故事,小百合对爱的追逐,从那杯甜冰开始,她余生所做的一切都是为了接近她心中的那个男人(会长)。 而事实上,故事结束前,小白和总共...
评分逆境就像一阵狂风, 从我们手中夺走本来无法被夺走的东西, 狂风过后, 我们看到是原形毕露的自己。 我学会了让我性格里的水凝滞结冰, 唯有用这种方法停止我思潮的自然流动, 我才能忍受这等待。
第一本读完的英语小说 必须纪念一下
评分第一本读完的英语小说 必须纪念一下
评分beauty in the atmosphere
评分嗯 日本文化
评分电影刚出来的时候看的电影。前两天偶尔淘到了书,抽着挤着时间读完了。描述手法不错,不过一到细节描写,英文就没有中文丰富。硬伤。
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