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Title: Travel to a secret world
Review: There is not much to be said about this book that hasn't already been said. I'd been meaning to read it for years, and when I finally did, I was not disappointed. Golden has created a world that so few of us know anything about. I certainly cannot speak to the accuracy of his depiction of the life of a pre-WWII Geisha, but was captivated none-the-less.His portrayal of the character of Sayuri is not fairy-tale perfect as so many have implied. I found the character believably flawed-particularly in her treatment of Nobu, the gruff-but-kind, disfigured businessman who chooses her to be his mistress. And, even in her later days in New York, she still seemed to maintain an aura of artificiality, as though the role of the Geisha could not be shed.I couldn't help but be swept up in the world Golden has created. The story is well-worth the hype it has generated.
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