Memoirs of a Geisha

After leaving Tel-Aviv, I bought "Memoirs of a Geisha" in a library of Rome's airport. It costed very cheap, so I didn't reflect much if buying or not. Before the movie came to Italy's cinemas, my mother told me that she bought the book few years ago...but I haven't found in our library T_T Maybe Mummy borrowed it to my aunt and she hasn't given it to her anymore .
The narrator is in first person (that I prefer about books) and it's just Sayuri narrates (Pratically Sayuri dictated her story to Arthur Golden, the real author). She tells in great detail and it seems you are carried to her world, at the half of '900. In my opinion an unattanaible world.
Even if someone from Oriental world explains us his culture that excites us very much, we can't understand everything. We are born with an other mentality and we have grown with it. It is in our spirit and it will be always there. Moreover it contributed to create our character and changing could be very hard.
I'm sure it's for this that Man has always became excited for East. Just since Alexander the Great (and preavious men) it was in this way: Oriental world arouses Mistery.
We can't understand everything about Geisha's image. For example...behind her neck, it is painted a kind of "three legs" with white wax, that lets nude a part of neck and back. For Japanese men it's so exciting and erotic, instead for us it isn't so important. Japanese men love women's neck like Occidental ones love women' legs. We can know these things, but not feel.
However I love descriptions of this book, especially for metaphors that I understand soon! Most of them is very deep, but easy to perceive. Since I have watched the movie milions times I think it's so exciting and interesting all details about places and characters. There are about 600 pages and only yesterday I read 150 pages; maybe within few days I'll finish it!