The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.
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This character's entirely invented, and the woman that I interviewed wouldn't recognize herself, or really anything about herself, in this book, which she hasn't read, because she doesn't read English.
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| Birth: | 6th December, 1956 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Novelist |
About
Arthur Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha. He attended Harvard University and received a degree in art history, specializing in Japanese art. In 1980, he earned an M.A. in Japanese history at Columbia University, and also learned Mandarin Chinese. After a summer at Peking University in Beijing, China, he worked in Tokyo. When he returned to the United States, he earned an M.A. in English at Boston University. He currently lives in Brookline, Massachusetts. After its release in 1997, Memoirs of a Geisha spent two years on the New York Times bestseller list. It has sold more than four million copies in English and has been translated into thirty-two languages around the world.
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