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as a result (1), sold with her sister into slavery by their father after their mother's death (1), Baby Warren. As Dick continues to drink (1), he jeopardizes his position at the clinic and is asked to leave.The Divers return to the Riviera (1), and Dick continues to drink and unravel (1), insulting old friends. Nicole has an affair with Tommy Barban and asks Dick for a divorce in order to marry Tommy. Dick readily agrees (1), realizing that Nicole's finally overcome her psychological condition. Dick then disappears to America (1), never settling down. The book ends (1), suggesting that he is still there. (1), "I wasn't born and raised to be a Kyoto geisha....I'm a fisherman's daughter from a little town called Yoroido on the Sea of Japan." How nine-year-old Chiyo (1), the beautiful geisha accomplished in the art of entertaining men (1), Dick realizes his world is falling apart. He goes out carousing (1), is the focus of this fascinating first novel. Narrating her life story from her elegant suite in the Waldorf Astoria (1), Sayuri tells of her traumatic arrival at the Nitta okiya (a geisha house) (1), where she endures harsh treatment from Granny and Mother (1), the sadistically cruel head geisha. But Sayuri's chance meeting with the Chairman (1), makes her determined to become a geisha. Under the tutelage of the renowned Mameha (1), she becomes a leading geisha of the 1930s and 1940s. After the book's compelling first half (1), the second half is a bit flat and overlong. Still (1), with degrees in Japanese art and history (1), has brilliantly revealed the culture and traditions of an exotic world (1), and must be rescued by Nicole's sister (1), and the two consummate the aborted romance they had begun several years earlier. In the aftermath (1), in anger (1), who shows her kindness (1), Dick meets Rosemary in a hotel (1), gets beat up and imprisoned (1), was a Rhodes scholar (1), are happy (1), and Nicole (1), and from Hatsumomo (1), becomes Sayuri (1), the greedy owners (1), Golden (1), runs their car off the road. Dick learns his father has passed away and heads to America for the funeral. Upon his return (1), The story shifts back in time to relate the events that led up to the marriage of Dick and Nicole. Dick attended Yale (1), and then moved to Vienna to study clinical psychology. Once (1), as Dick was leaving a clinic on the Zurichsee (1), he met the sixteen-year-old Nicole Warren (1), who was being checked in. The Chicago heiress had been sexually abused by her father and (1), had developed an acute fear of men. The two fall in love (1), and Dick becomes both her doctor and her husband. They travel extensively (1), and have two children together.Partially on account of Nicole's relapse (1), the Divers decide to invest in a clinic in Switzerland. Things begin to unravel. Dick is accused of infidelity by a former patient (1), closed to most Westerners. Highly recommended. (1)
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Jan 8, 2007