When you take the book out of context like that, it’s legit creepy. So that she, a twelve year old girl, may someday win the affections of said man in his fifties. The man is described as being at least fifty years old.Īt that moment, Sayuri decides that she is going to become the best, most high class hooker in the industry. Suddenly, a man stops to help her, and gives her money to buy a snow cone. Big) is just not sexy.Īnyway, our two romantic leads encounter one another for the first time when Sayuri is crying in a park after being beaten for not wanting to be a high class hooker. We the readers are expected to become involved in the star-crossed romance between Sayuri, our protagonist, and a man who is known only as the Chairman.Īnd can I say that not giving your male lead a real name (ala Mr. Like I said, this debut novel by Arthur Golden presents itself as a love story. Eventually becomes the mistress of a slightly less douchey man who she claims to love because he was nice to her once when she was twelve. Is later sold to a different man she doesn’t care about in exchange for favorable treatment for her adopted “family” during a war. Has her virginity auctioned off to the most perverted individual imaginable. Is beaten and starved when she tries to run away from the sex trade. Is sold by her father into the sex trade. Set in Japan in the years leading up to World War II, Memoirs of a Geisha is a “love story” about a girl who: Warning: This post contains spoilers, but probably none that would shock you.
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