TY - BOOK AU - Golden,Arthur TI - Memoirs of a geisha: a novel SN - 0375400117 U1 - 813/.54 21 PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Knopf KW - Geishas KW - Fiction KW - Women KW - Japan KW - Social conditions N1 - Wilson's Senior High School, November 2002; Wilson's Fiction, April 2001; Booklist starred, September 1997; New York Times, October 1997; Adult; Follett Library Resources N2 - Nitta Sayuri, a young Japanese woman who was taken from her home at the age of nine and sold into slavery as a geisha, discovers a rare opportunity for freedom when the outbreak of World War II forces an end to the only life she has ever known ER -