Memoirs of A Geisha

Arthur Golden

Jul 2000 · Penguin Random House Audio · Narrated by Bernadette Dunne

About this audiobook

Speaking to us with the wisdom of age and in a voice at once haunting and immediate, Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha. Sayuri's story begins in a poor fishing village in 1929, when, as a nine-year-old with unusual blue-gray eyes, she is taken from her home and sold into slavery to a renowned geisha house. It concludes with World War II when the geisha houses are forced to close and Sayuri reinvents herself and finds a rare kind of freedom on her own terms.

Ratings and reviews

This book is so beautiful and sad all at the same time. I can't even begin to describe it. The author and narrator did such an amazing job.

Its annoying to hear... The book is continued on disc blabla.

Excellent book, adequate reader

About the author

Arthur Golden was educated at Harvard College, where he received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art.