From start to finish, the listener is absorbed in the elegant spirit of Davis's performance, eager to hear the next chapter of Sayuri's transformation into one of the most famous geishas of the century. As Sayuri ages from a 9-year-old peasant girl to a popular geisha in her late 20s, Davis directs her voice gently away from curious youth to a tone that reflects Sayuri's uphill life. Memoirs of a Geisha A literary sensation and runaway bestseller, this brilliant debut novel tells with seamless authenticity and exquisite lyricism the. Genres Nonfiction Japan Biography Memoir History Asia Autobiography. Told with great wisdom and sensitivity, it is a true story of beauty and heroism, and of a time and culture rarely revealed to the Western world. Davis reads the abbreviated story of Sayuri with an authentic-sounding Japanese accent-one mixed with a magical combination of Asian reserve and theatrical energy. Geisha, a Life is the first of its kind, as it delicately unfolds the fabric of a geisha's development. But dismay quickly gives way to mounting pleasure as Elaina Erika Davis (Contact, As the World Turns) begins her delicate rendering of geisha culture in the years before the second world war.
Autor/in: Arthur Golden Titel: Memoirs of a Geisha ISBN: 0099282852 (ISBN-13: 9780099282853) Format: 176x111x35 mm Seiten: 498 Gewicht: 273 g Verlag: Random House UK Ltd Einband: Taschenbuch Sprache: Englisch Zustand: Neuwertig, UNGELESEN***The first thing you notice about the audio version of Memoirs of a Geisha is that Arthur Golden's 428-page novel has been reduced to a scant two cassettes.
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