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Arthur Golden

Born

in Chattanooga, Tennessee, The United States

December 06, 1956

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Arthur Sulzberger Golden is an American writer. He is the author of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha (1997).

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Average rating: 4.16 · 2,100,032 ratings · 38,805 reviews · 21 distinct works • Similar authors

	Memoirs of a Geisha 4.16 avg rating — 2,089,963 ratings — published 1997 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	さゆり上 [Sayuri 1] by Arthur Golden, アーサー・ゴールデン, 小川高義 (翻訳) 4.39 avg rating — 573 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	さゆり下 [Sayuri 2] by Arthur Golden, アーサー・ゴールデン, 小川高義 (翻訳) 4.48 avg rating — 466 ratings — published 1999 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flibbity Jibbit and Dora: The True Blue, Too Blue Dolphin 3.88 avg rating — 8 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Untitled Novel 4.17 avg rating — 6 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Die Geisha 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Memoirs of a Geisha 3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	MEMOIRS OF A GEISHA: A Novel. really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Level 6: Memoirs of a Geisha (Pearson English Graded Readers) by Arthur Golden (2009-08-03) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Arthur Golden

さゆり [Sayuri] (2 books)
by

Arthur Golden,

アーサー・ゴールデン,

小川高義 (翻訳)

4.43 avg rating — 1,039 ratings

Quotes by Arthur Golden (?)

“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.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, loss

1789 likes

“The heart dies a slow death, shedding each hope like leaves until one day there are none. No hopes. Nothing remains.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

tags: death, hope

1306 likes

“This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.”
― Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

1082 likes

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Polls

May 2017 New School Classic Poll

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden, 1997, 512

54 votes, 17.1%

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami, 1997, 607

52 votes, 16.5%

My Ántonia by Willa Cather, 1918, 232

37 votes, 11.7%

A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 1980, 416

31 votes, 9.8%

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare by G.K. Chesterton, 1908, 182

26 votes, 8.2%

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan, 1989, 288 pgs

25 votes, 7.9%

Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, 1962, 246

21 votes, 6.6%

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim, 1922, 232

20 votes, 6.3%

The Long Walk by Richard Bachman/Stephen King, 1979, 370

12 votes, 3.8%

The Master of Go by Yasunari Kawabata, 1954, 189

11 votes, 3.5%

The Winds of War by Herman Wouk, 1971, 892

11 votes, 3.5%

Silence by Shūsaku Endō, 1966, 201

8 votes, 2.5%

After the Divorce by Grazia Deledda, 1902, 174

4 votes, 1.3%

Henderson the Rain King by Saul Bellow, 1959, 341

4 votes, 1.3%

316 total votes

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