The seductive and extraordinary tale of a geisha girl, told from the Waldorf Astoria in New York as she remembers her experiences in the glamorous and decadent heart of Kyoto in the 1930s. Exceptional and erotic }Literary Review{. Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose, it is a novel whose pyschological empathy and historical truths are outstanding }Mail On Sunday{ 'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The TimesA young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house.
