Hello, this Summer holidays I read the book of ''Memoirs of a Geisha'' written by Arthur Golden.
This book is about a girl called Chiyo that she and her sister were caught by a man that wanted both of those girls. When they reached their destination, another man was waiting there to take Chiyo's sister, and that man took to Chiyo to the house of the geishas. She knew a woman called Hatsumomo, that she was the best of the geishas at that moment because she earn the most money that the others, 10.000 yens.
The mother of the geishas was living there too, and she wanted to make Chiyo another geisha, but for being a geisha, she had to be before a slave until she was older than 18. When she was 18, Chiyo had a geisha name, Sayuri, so at that moment, that was her new name. It was so very good geisha that take the position of Hatsumomo, Sayuri in one night with a man, earned 15.000 yens. Hatsumomo, when she knew that new, she was very angry and wanted to kill Sayuri and the mother of the geishas. One night, when geishas' mother and Sayuri were in a room, Hatsumomo thought that it was her opportunity to kill both of them, so she picked a lamp, she throw it to the floor of that room and there was fire in the room. But, they could leave the room in fire at time and they go out of that place.