Memoirs of a Geisha
Is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997. The novel tells the story of a geisha working in Kyoto before the Second World War.
The protagonist, Chiyo and her older sister Satsu, live in a town on the shores of the Seaof Japan, Yoroido. Are taken to Gion by a man named Mr. Bekuo. Satsu is sold to a brothel and Chiyo to an okiya (a geisha house).
Chiyo is befriended by Pumpkin, a girl who was a few months older than her. After several years, Pumpkin becomes Hatsumomo's younger sister and because of this, Hatsumomoforbidden to speak to Chiyo.
Because of their unusual eyes, blue-gray, Chiyo will become Geisha, despite the rivalry ofHatsumomo, the only current geisha Nitta okiya. The arrogant Hatsumomo Chiyo warnspotential because it represents a potential competition. Chiyo is reduced to the role ofservant of the okiya, losing his chance to become geisha because of the machinations ofHatsumomo.
His brief encounter with President manages to change his luck...
It's a great story ... telling the hard "adventure" of this young girl, which has a hidden and forbidden love but eventually managed to find a happy ending after so much sadness.
the story was so successful that the movie was created... winning film is an Academy Award and Grammy, adapted from the novel of the same name, produced by Steven Spielberg and directed by Rob Marshall. In a production of Amblin Entertainment and Red Wagon Entertainment and stars Zhang Ziyi, Ken Watanabe, Gong Li, Michelle Yeoh, Randall Duk Kim, Youki Kudoh and Suzuka Ohgo. Ohgo plays the girl Sayuri in the film, which was filmed in California and several locations in Kyoto, including the Kiyomizu Temple and Fushimi Inari-Taisha.
The Dark Guardian
Lucien is a legend even be among his countrymen, the Carpathians, immortal beings who refuse contact with humans. For centuries, unsuccessfully sought a woman who depart from their more obscure and prevent it from becoming a vampire, as has happened with many of his people. But now he found Jaxon, a young, attractive and tough cop who battle every day against the worst of the human race. Jaxon is on the brink of death when it comes Lucien. A strange, wonderfully attractive and seductive possessive. Next to it can wipe out any threat ... and price but have to pay is that of leading a life so strange that the very idea shrinks its spirit.
Since I was a child, Jaxon was trained to be a soldier. The tremendous tragedy that struck her family became a loner and distrustful handed over body and soul to the fight against crime. When it comes time to face the man who threatens to destroy everything he loves in life, finds an unexpected ally. Someone who belongs to a world that Jaxon can not just imagine. A being who emanates such power of seduction and such force that for the first time, makes her feel protected. At the same time, offers the promise of a strange, terrible and fascinating, for all eternity.
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| Christine Feechan |
