Arthur Golden
Born
in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States
December 06, 1956
Genre
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“At the temple there is a poem called "Loss" carved into the stone. It has three words, but the poet has scratched them out. You cannot read loss, only feel it.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Memoirs of a Geisha
― Memoirs of a Geisha
Polls
November 2014 New School Classics Poll
1920, The Age of Innocence byEdith Wharton, 305 pages
1911, Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, 155 pages
1970, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, 291 pages
1997, Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 428 pages
1962, A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle, 211 pages
1985, Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy, 337 pages
1998, The Poisonwood Bible, by Barbara Kingsolver, 546 pages
1908, The Man Who Was Thursday by G.K. Chesterton, 198 pages
1993, Captain Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières, 437 pages
1994, Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier, 449 pages
1956, Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin, 159 pages
1914, Of Human Bondage by W. Somerset Maugham, 684 pages
1920, Main Street by Sinclair Lewis, 454 pages
1960, The Moviegoer by Walker Percy, 242 pages
1939, How Green Was My Valleyby Richard Llewellyn, 448 pages
1985, The Postman: Il Postino by Antonio Skármeta, 128 pages
1966, Season of Migration to the North by Tayeb Salih, 176 pages
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