Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

My favorite book is Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

How do I begin to give such an outstandingly good and captivating novel it's proper due in just a couple of paragraphs?  I began reading `MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA' by Arthur Golden for my book club and the first two days or so I keep putting it down for one reason or another…a ringing phone…a crying baby..couldn't find my reading glasses,  whatever but by the third day I was completely enthralled! I found my self plunking my son down in front of an episode of his favorite cartoon just to steal a few minutes of extra reading time.

`MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA' is the story of Nitta Sayuri a very famous Geisha in her day who we now find living in New York City at about the age of seventy and dictating her story for transcription. She takes us back to a time long before she was a geisha to what it was like growing up her little fishing village of Yoroido and to how she ended up in one of the most popular geisha districts in Japan.

This story unwinds itself in a manner that will have you believing that this is a non-fiction book and will keep you mesmerized until the very last page. The language is beautiful if not funny at times and Golden incorporates a lot of facts about life in this part of the world in the 1920's - 1940's that many people would never have been inclined or interested to know about.