Arthur Golden

Een 9-jarig meisje wordt in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw verkocht aan een geisha-huis in Kyoto, waar ze in de jaren dertig een gevierd geisha wordt.

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Mana 

”Whatever our struggles and triumphs, however we may suffer them, all too soon they bleed into a wash, just like watery ink on paper.”

A moving story that changes the life of a poor fisherman’s daughter into the most wanted geisha in Japan. She owes her mother, she was the one that gave Sayuri her beautiful and unique gray/blue eyes. 

Throughout the story you will get to know the feelings of Sayuri and you will understand her deepest emotions. A book that is able to take you to Japan and makes you experience the life of a geisha closer. 

“The heart dies a slow death. Shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”

It is the sad story of Sayuri and how she experienced life with all her hardships and the way it turned.

“We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.”

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