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A young girl with beautiful eyes named chiyo lives in yoroido, a raggedy little fishing village, in a raggedy little house with her raggedy little familymom, dying of bone cancer. But it also shows that by the time sayuri is a mature geisha in her twenties her reputation is solidifying. Memoirs of a geisha 1997 memoirs of a geisha is a historical novel by american author arthur golden, published in 1997. It is a wonderful introduction to geisha, japanese culture, and the east for the uninitiated.
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