Sayuri tells her story with such gentle courtesy and determination that you are quickly brought under the spell of her character. She takes you by the hand and leads you into a world that is both formal and intimate, a world that I had only before glimpsed in the fleeting and beautiful images of traditional Japanesse art ...Memoirs of a Geisha is a wonderful achievement.

The shock of what has just happened hits Sayuri like a wave; although she didn't see the figure at the door clearly, she is convinced that it was the Chairman and not Nobu. Her fear is palpable and although she had planned this event, she couldn't control the fear or adrenalin accompanying such a daring act. She feels ill, exhausted and disgusted with herself. Sayuri wakes up in the inn where they are staying with no recollection of what happened after they were discovered.


How Far would you go for love? Would you leave your life behind? Would you consider everything they told you about love a lie? How far would you go for that man?

Eventually she grew up with the interest of becoming and learning to be a geisha. She was one of the youngest and all ready one of the most beautiful to ever be seen. She was a very fast learner. A geisha in japan is one of the most sacred women to exists. They are women to be wanted by any man in the world, to look as best everyday, to be well educated and to never love a man. Its prohibited to be with a man or to even get to love them, but Sayuri was already disobeying for she believed that love existed and it found her.

"...we can never flee the misery that is within us," Chapter 9 p.g.106

Memoirs of a Geisha is narrated Thur the entire novel by Sayuri. It takes place in Yoroido, japan. She walks us Thur her life since she was nine. Her mother was deadly ill. And her father had worried about how they would be taken care of with her mother gone. Mr. Tanaka ( a well known friend and a wealthy man) had taken advantage of the situation to take the girls a way. He propose they would be better of with him and he would house and feed them. Little did she know that that day , Mr.Tanaka visit would change her life forever. Mr.tanaka wasn't the guy he appear to be. He took them to different "okiya" (a geisha home) and their was the last seen of her sister being driven apart from her and she was only nine.

"But to learn in a single moment that both my mother and my father had died and left me, and that my sister too was lost to me forever...at once my mind felt like a broken vase that would not stand. I was lost even within the room around me." Chapter 8 p.g.103

This glorified novel is is written by a fictitious Japaneses historian professor named Jakob Harrhuis. He leads us into a world where a young poor girl named Sayuri tell us all about her memories as a child and of a geisha.