Nominated as one of America?s best-loved novels by PBS?s The Great American Read.This novel relates the true confessions of one of Japan's most celebrated geisha. Nitta Sayuri tells the story of her life as a geisha, when as a nine-year-old girl she is taken from her home and sold to a renowned geisha house. We witness her transformation as she learns the rigorous arts of the geisha. And so we enter a world where women are trained to beguile the most powerful men, and where love is scorned as illusion.