P's trace...

It left about 80.000 VNĐ in my purse for this lame copy of book, which is worth its beyond terrible printing and paper quality. I just needed it for something to even out my hardest study period in my life so far and never ever thought that this awesome work would tempt people spontaneously into belief that miracle does exist.

Japan is crazy, nothing could oppose to this. What had laid in my mind before this book is that geisha is someome wearing kimono all time with chalky white face, vivid red lips; selling their talent by dancing, playing instrument and even prostitution. Years ago I randomly watched a film that showed a geisha fully nude lay back in a table with various types of sushi covering most of her bare body. As anyone else who heard something about this work, no doubt I found geisha themselves miserable and over-tolerated. Arthur Golden, a man with supposedly too much affection for Japan, drew out a famous geisha district surrounding the central Sayuri. Personally it is just a normal story containing decent amount of drama, due to the fact it was written based on true life story. The tone was natural and I love how Arthur transfered Sayuri's feeling to his reader. What stands out the most is the Oriental background and the famous culture of Japan, which not everybody is able to experience. Arthur indeed is an aesthete, such that i had the feeling he, whereas a man, wanted to sink into those exquisite sets of kimono once in his life, for his graceful description about the pattern, material and luxurious color. Following the stream of predictable events, the book ended up smoothly with the perishing geisha period after World Ward II. I was so satisfied that I managed not to buy Part II of the story. This work is too beautiful to be added by just one sentence.

However, I found the most awkward paragraph about how Sayuri thought of American soldiers. It is just like a deep fragment that nearly ruined my mood. It is tremendously different from all the Japanese at that moment, who were forced to work and lost all their past. Subjectively that may be how she rethought about them soldiers after years living in America. In my stereotypical notion, Asian overall tend to treat Western people more nicely and respectfully than Asian themselves, except for war time. Isnt that reasonable enough ?

Ok this is Magic by Emi Hinouchi in CKB Tune remix from DJ Taku's Tachytelic Night