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Title: Male Fantasy more than Memoirs of a Geisha
Review: Arthur Golden did a fine job of researching the life of a Geisha. However, he failed to capture the emotions of Sayuri, the Geisha whose memoirs we are purportedly reading. This novel may be a stereotypically love story if one ignores the age and social status difference between the geisha and her love interest (sponsor). Or it may be a story of abuse of women in Japan. It may even be an outsiders view of what life is like as a geisha. It is not an insider's view of what it feels like to be a geisha as the title implies. Perhaps it is nothing more than a male fantasy.
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