Monday, May 31, 2010
A Skark Thats Nane Starts With A M
long time ago I read it and even though lately I'm reading a lot more ... this novel is still in the ranking of my favorite books, in very good place.
Synopsis: Arthur Gordon
novel set in Kyoto, Japan, before World War 2, well, then. Nara
The history book Sayuri, a geisha who has a renowned teahouse in New York, from childhood when she was a girl named Chiyo from a poor family but with water-colored eyes that made it special, and that was sold with her sister, she to a Kyoto okiya where he taught the geisha life .... and his sister to a brothel.
I think a beautiful book, the story is very nice and really immersing yourself in it, feel what the protagonist feels, all you have to go and everything you learn. Interestingly
all you have on the culture of the geisha, usually in the West are seen as prostitutes, but really are not ... were women, if men entertained, but with his talent on music (sing and play several instruments), culture, conversation, they are taught flower arranging, tea ceremony, etc. While girls are the maids are the okiya, until they reach an appropriate age, then they are strictly trained in the art of seduction, requiring much discipline. Well, the part that counted as the dress, hair and make ... uff! Menudo protocol. Thing is
if a customer were more common than others, it became her "danna" that was usually a wealthy man, sometimes married, who have the resources to finance the costs of geisha's traditional training and other expense. And the geisha only slept with her danna. Well, the book is well explained that, lol!
In 2005 they made a movie based on the book:
Well, if I had not read the book shortly before seeing the movie, it would be me liked a lot more. And is that the movie is good, but not too sooo good as the book. And then there is business as usual, there are things that are important in the movie do not go, and not just events, if not Sayuri's relationship with some characters, such as Nobu. The relationship with this man in the book seems to me very important, hehco is an important person for her, and the film does not get to glimpse what lies between them.
I gave the movie my boyfriend, poor thing, haha, with "this in the book is not so," because in the book comes out ... " style and comments
In conclusion: a wonderful book, the film not so much XDD
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