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Title: I didn't want it to end.
Review: Golden's fictional account of the Geisha culture in pre- and post-WWII Japan is so well-written, you will find yourself checking the cover again and again to make sure it's fiction. After her mother's death, nine-year old Sayuri's distraught father sends her away from her poor fishing village with a wealthy man who promises to look after her. They travel to the city of Gion, where Sayuri is sold as an apprentice Geisha. As Sayuri grows, we follow her from one teahouse to another as she emerges from a clumsy child into a beautiful, much sought after Geisha.I couldn't put this book down. My only complaint is with the hurried ending. It didn't seem to fit with the rest of the story. Other than that, it was one of the best book's I've read in a long, long time.
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