Geisha: A Life by Mineko Iwasaki

Geisha: A Life

Mineko Iwasaki with Rande Brown (Translator)

320 pages first pub 2002 (editions)

nonfiction autobiography memoir informative slow-paced
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No woman in the three-hundred-year history of the karyukai has ever come forward in public to tell her story--until now. Many say I was the best geisha of my generation, writes Mineko Iwasaki. And yet, it was a life that I found too constricting t...

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informative 92%
reflective 59%
emotional 44%
inspiring 30%
funny 13%
challenging 10%
sad 10%
hopeful 7%
lighthearted 7%
adventurous 3%
relaxing 3%
dark 1%
mysterious 1%

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slow 30%
fast 16%

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