Confessions of a Kamikaze Geisha

Set in Japan and China 1939-1946, "Confessions of a Kamikaze Geisha" is a satire of jingoistic nationalism, an absurd retelling of the Greater East Asia War from the Japanese point of view. When the narrator, Suzukaze, makes her debut as an apprentice geisha in 1939 at the age of 15, it is expected that her maidenhood will be sold to a well-off patron for a substantial sum. On her very first night of entertainment, however, she falls madly in love with a young lieutenant, upsetting the plans for her future and putting her on the perilous road that will lead her to one day become the "Kamikaze Geisha."