{"product_id":"9780099552147","title":"Memoirs of a Geisha","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Golden, Arthur\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 1 January 1800 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback \/ softback | 512 pages\u003cbr\u003e178 x 110 | 271g\u003cp\u003e'An epic tale and a brutal evocation of a disappearing world' The Times A young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. Many years later she tells her story from a hotel in New York, opening a window into an extraordinary half-hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation and summoning up a quarter of a century of Japan's dramatic history.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Intimate and brutal, written in cool, lucid prose it is a novel whose psychological empathy and historical truths are outstanding' Mail on Sunday\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Golden, Arthur","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50666591781048,"sku":"9780099552147","price":2.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9780099552147.jpg?v=1734749325","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9780099552147","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}