Memoirs of a Geisha

I choose to give a rating based off how I felt before doing research...This book is written very well with an almost poetic flow and I was astonished to find out how cruel eastern civilization is, until I did research and found out that the author fabricated the woman's story to the point where she sued him for defamation. Now I don't know what's the truth and what's fake. Sounds like a Mel Gibson movie.