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Summary: The extraordinary story of a geisha. In 1930s Kyoto a young peasant girl is sold as servant and apprentice to a renowned geisha house. She tells her story many years later in New York; evoking another culture and a different time, portraying the life behind rice-paper screens, where young girls learn the arts of geisha - dancing and singing, how to wind the kimono, how to walk and pour tea, and how to beguile the most powerful men.