Copyright © 1997 by Arthur Golden
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Vintage books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Alfred. A. Knopf, Inc., New York, in 1997. Originally published in trade paperback by Vintage Books in 1999.
The Library of Congress has catalogued the Vintage trade paperback as follows:
Golden, Arthur, 1957-
Memoirs of a Geisha: a novel/by Arthur Golden.
p. cm.
1. Japan—History—20th century—Fiction 2. Geishas—Japan—Fiction. 3. Historical
Fiction. I. Title
PS3557.O35926M45 1998b
813’.54—dc21 98-26449
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