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I have just completed the book MEMOIR OF A GEISHA
I heard about this book about 6years ago and I tried to get a cop but couldn't and when someone mentioned it here I had to look for the e-book and download and I wasn't disappointed. Need I say you will only find it interesting if you love romance and ever happy after kind of stuff . Let me do a quick summary.
The book centres on a Geisha called saruyi, she is from a poor background and was sold into the profession by her father through a man from a neighbouring village who noticed her 'special' eye colour-bluish grey, which was not common in Japan. I forgot to mention she wasn't the only one sold, her sister also but since she wasn't as pretty, she ended up as a prostitute and latter escaped and nothing was said of her afterwards. So back to saruyi! She started her training as a Geisha few months after arriving at Gion but fell out of grace from the owner of the Okiya, that is where geisha(s) live, after her attempt to escape with her sister which failed and she was subdued to the position of a maid. Then one day while running an errand for the Okiya she ran into a man called chairman, he was so kind to her and gave her a hankasief and a coin and the impression he made, made her determine to be come a Geisha if only to be able to meet him again, in order words he became the driving force in her life while a senior Geisha living in the same okiya was bent on ruining her and her chances of ever becoming a Geisha.
She got lucky when suddenly a renown Geisha had an encounter with her and decided to help her, so she started her training again under the tutelage of this Geisha, who is her elder sister (not biological). One day during an outing with her elder sister she was able to meet the chairman again and got to know who he really is and they were introduced but he appear not to have any memory of her, did I mention that over the years she had secretly nurse an affection for the chairman and kept the hankasief which was her consolation whenever she was having a bleak moment. Instead of catching the chairman's attention she ended up fascinating his best friend called Nodu who was once a soldier and a war hero, who has burnt all over is face and body and an amputated hand to show for it. All these happened when she was till an apprentice Geisha but latter she became a Geisha her self and a well known one in Gion. She became a good friend of nobu but she was too deeply in love with the chairman such that when nobu propose to be her danna she find a way to reject him, because if she had accepted, it would have hindered her chances of ever having anything to do with the chairman cause as you know, they are best of friends. He became upset with her after learning that she chose a military officer instead of him, of which she denied by letting him know it wasn't her choice to make but her mother, who is the owner of the okiya, at that time the war was near and it came heavily on them that the activities of geisha and tea houses closed down completely and everybody had to find a hidding place or means of survival and at this critical moment when none could help her, Nobu came to her rescue and secure a place for her at his friend's house, where she stayed till the end of the war. After the war the city return to it usual activities, which means the few geisha and tea houses that survived started entertaining again. Saruyi went back to her okiya after Nobu visited her at his friend's place and seek a favour of her, to help safe the electrical company he and the chairman build over the year, which was about to be seize because of their lack of support to the government during the war period and what is expected of saruyi is to help entertainment the New minister, who happened to have fallen in love with her even though she couldn't even remember meeting him and so she was able to help Nodu and chairman but in the process the minister propose to be her Danna which really annoyed Nobu a great deal has he has already promise to become her danna if only his company is restored to them. They got their company back and so he made known his intention to be her danna which she received with a heavy heart and plotted a way of escaping such ordeal, she came up with an idea of seducing the minister and plan on arranging that Nobu will see them together and she knows he won't be able to stand her afterwards as he once got angry at her when the minister suggested just having her for a night since he couldn't be her danna and when Nobu told her this she replied that she will do anything for nobu since she is forever in his debt but rather than be pleased with this response he became very upset that she could say such and told her that if only he knew she is that kind he will never have anything to do with her ever. So you can see why she wants him to see them together so that she can be free and so she sought the help of a Geisha she grew up with known as pumpkin all through the book even though that isn't her really name or Geisha name, as every geisha is expect to changer her name . She ask pumpkin to bring Nobu to a certain place but rather than bring Nobu, she brought chairman as she is aware of saruyi's secret affection for the chairman and she plotted to revenge against her for making her loose her spot of becoming the daughter of the okiya they grew up in. After this incident saruyi became very sad because she felt there is no way of ever wining the chairman's heart after that incident. On a certain day she was to meet with Nobu, it was the chairman that showed up instead and he told her that he was the one that help her become a Geisha and was actually the one who told her elder sister to help her, he also let her know that he has being in love with her but had to act indifference because of his friend and the values he has for their friendship. He told her after he spoke to pumpkin and learnt that Nobu was the one intended to come along and not him, he knew he cant pretend anymore and told his friend about the incident with the minister, he did this because he believe if truely she and Nobu was destined to be together, he will forgive her regardless of what she has done but he never did. She was so surprise to hear all that and Chairman later become her danna but she had to stop being a geisha in order not to run into Nobu and not destroy his friendship with the chairman. Saruyi later left Japan for America where she spent her later year as a tea shop owner and in the company of the chairman. She hinted her reader of having a son for the chairman even though she wasn't explicit about this. The last two paragraph let us know that the chairman died and she still feels so much in love with him even in absentia.
I hope I have done a good job at summarizing the novel and if anyone is interested please drop your mail I will send it to you.# in team spirit of for the love of book #