I read a free PDF version of it. It is basically a life story of a sophisticated traditional Japanese escort during World War II era. I have read auto-bio's/memoirs of a hell lot of people eg. Saddam Hussein, Hitler, Gandhi, Marie Curie, Feynman, Gen Musharraf, Ramakrishna Paramhans, Steve Jobs , you just name it . But there is something different in this book. The book has a very uncanny narration. She is not hurried into unloading her emotions but very patiently through imaginative and thought provoking ways gives the analogies of her circumstances with some objects around her (may be like a bark of a tree). She takes the reader inside the world of a Geisha , how they are plucked away from their family at a very age. How she herself was tricked by the same very person she regarded very highly. Her description of the hardships she faced during her early formative years as a Geisha will wrung your heart with pain. She plans and attempts escapes but it always ends up gettin
Unabated......