Reddit reviews Memoirs of a Geisha: A Novel

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Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden is another example of a male author creating great female characters.

This is something that's on my To-Read list, but I saw you like memoirs so I'm going to recommend Geisha: A Life or Geisha of Gion as it's known here by Mineko Iwasaki. I plan to read it along side the novel Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden. The reason why these intrigue me as a pair is that Iwasaki agreed to help Golden with his novel, as long as he promised not to name her as a source. He went back on his promise and she got a lot of slack for that, especially as a lot of aspects about Geisha life was misrepresented/fabricated in his novel. It was because this she wrote her autobiography as a rebuttal to the novel, in order to contrast what she really experienced with the world Golden created.

In the Time of the Butterflies is a wonderful novel that I truly loved. Also, Memoirs of a Geisha is highly recommended.

Every time someone asks me to recommend a book I always recommend Memoirs of a Geisha. I can't tell you how much I love this book, it's such a beautiful story and I know it's about a geisha but there's nothing bad in it, I wish I could read it every day. I've only read it twice from a library but if I win the raffle that's the book I want.