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        Memoirs of a Geisha


        setting

        Kyoto, Japan

        time

        WW II

        language

        English

        region

        North America

        year published

        1997

        page count

        448

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

        Chiyo Sakamoto

        Rip's impressions

        Reserved for Guest Editor

        first line

        Suppose that you and I were sitting in a quiet room overlooking a garden, chatting and sipping at our cups of green tea while we talked about something that had happened a long while ago, and I said to you, “That afternoon when I met so-and-so... was the very best afternoon of my life, and also the very worst afternoon.”

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