Memoirs of a Geisha

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Cute historical novel.

Author

Arthur Golden, American writer specialized in Japanese art.

Papillon

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True story of a man, imprisoned for a murder he didn't commit and his miraculous escape(s).

Author

Henri Charrière,  a convicted murderer chiefly known as the author of Papillon, a hugely successful memoir of his incarceration in and escape from a penal colony on French Guiana.