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Title: Involving story, disappointing end
Review: This is a wonderfully engaging novel, despite the fact that the ending falls a little flat. By the time World War II ends in the novel, the author has so drawn you into the world and life of the protagonist that you expect more from the rest of the story, but what follows seems to be half-hearted compared to the rest of the novel. Not that the end ruins the novel, it just seems to lose steam after a certain point, and the end seems contrived after so many struggles and hardships. This book is definitely worthwhile because it offers a unique glimpse into a world that is so exotic, foreign and archiac to most of us. Part of me still can't believe it was written by a western man instead of the geisha described in the beginning. His insights into the world of the geisha in Kyoto and involving prose make it a very good read.
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