Summoning up more than 20 years of Japan's most dramatic history, the geisha's story uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. It moves from a small fishing village in 1929 to the glamorous and decadent Kyoto of the 30s and on to postwar New York.

Rajkumar, in truly Dickensian style, succeeds at making a fortune from his logging business, but never forgets Dolly, the girl he saw accompanying the exiled Burmese royal family.

Contrary to popular opinion, geisha are not prostitutes but literally arts people . Their accomplishments include singing, dancing or playing a musical instrument and they are masters of the art of conversation. The real secret history of the geisha is explored here.

An erotic story of Imperial China from the author of Red Azalea and Becoming Madame Mao .

This is the prose masterpiece of the Heian era of the 10th and 11th centuries, which is recognized as a great period in Japanese literature. It is an account of the intricate, exquisite, highly ordered court culture which made such a masterpiece possible.

A novel which combines enlightenment and sexuality, Elizabethan drama and contemporary comedy. It is a tale of a brilliant and eccentric family, fatefully divided. The author won the Booker Prize and the Irish Times /Aer Lingus International Fiction Prize in 1990 for Possession .