Memoirs of a Geisha.(Carmen) (Corrected)

This book tells a story of Chiyo,a little girl that lives in the small fishing village of Yoroido,with her sister,her mother, who is sick, and her father.

It happens during the Great Depression when her father sells Chiyo to Mr Tanaka who brings her to Kyoto where Chiyo is sold to the Nitta Okiya,a geisha house.

Chiyo meets Mrs Nitta,or "Mother" who is the mistress of Okiya and meets another young girl like her ,Pumpkin. They become friens.

Chiyo must become a geisha and she is learning how to become it,but is always obstructed by Hatsumomo,the most beautiful geisha at the moment of the Nitta Okiya.

One day, walking on the Gion's centre Chiyo meets a benevolent Chairman who will change her life.

Chiyo also meets Mameha,the most important in all of Gion who becomes the Chiyo's personal trainer.When Chiyo starts the apprentiship she gives her a new name:Sayuri.

After a long time of practice Mameha organises a bidding war between rich patrons for Sayuri's mizuage(virginity).

Dr.Crab, who wins Sayuri's mizuage , pays the highest price ever paid in Gion.

Next Sayuri is adopted by Nitta and she becomes a famous and rich geisha.

During all this time, Sayuri always thought about the Chairman, who she has fallen in love with.

When World War II happens Sayuri changes her life another time because the geisha districts are closed and she go to work in a factory .

Finally Sayuri will changes her life completly because she will remeet the Chairman and they reveal their feelings to each other.

So Sayuri leaves the geisha's life forever in order to stay with the Chairman.