"Memoirs of a Geisha is the sort of novel that novellovers yearn for which is to say, so convincing that while reading it you become transported to another time another place, and feel you're listening and seeing with someone else's ears and eyes'

--Margaret Forster

This story is a rare and utterly engagingexperience. It tells the extraordinary tale of a geisha summoning up a quarter century, from 1929 to the post-war years of Japan"s dramatic history and opening a window onto a halfhidden world of croticism and enchantment,exploitation and degradation.

TRANSLATOR"S NOTE

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

Chapter 29

Chapter 30

Chapter 31

Chapter 32

Chapter 33

Chapter 34

Chapter 35

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS