Apricot Jam: And Other Stories

7 best books like Apricot Jam: And Other Stories (Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn): Thousand Cranes, The Sound of Waves, Thirst for Love, South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12, Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family, After the Banquet, Australia Day

Thousand Cranes

Author	Yasunari Kawabata
ISBN	0679762655

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Nobel Prize winner Yasunari Kawabata’s Thousand Cranes is a luminous story of desire, regret, and the almost sensual nostalgia that binds the living to the dead.
 
While attending a traditional tea ceremony in the aftermath of...

The Sound of Waves

Author	Yukio Mishima
ISBN	0099289989

Set in a remote fishing village in Japan, The Sound of Waves is a timeless story of first love. It tells of Shinji, a young fisherman and Hatsue, the beautiful daughter of the wealthiest man in the village. Shinji is entranced at the sight of Hatsue in the twilight on the beach and they fall in love. When the...

Thirst for Love

Author	Yukio Mishima
ISBN	0375705074

In Thirst for Love, Japan's greatest modern writer created a portrait of sexual torment and corrosive jealousy that is as delicately nuanced as Madame Bovary and as remorseless as Justine. Yukio Mishima's protagonist is Etsuko, whose philandering husband has died horribly from typhoid. The young...

South Pole: An Account of the Norwegian Antarctic Expedition in the 'Fram', 1910-12

Author	Roald Amundsen
ISBN	1841582069

At last we got away, on October 19. The weather for the past few days had not been altogether reliable; now windy, now calm - now snowing, now clear: regular spring weather, in other words... With this matter of fact sentence begins one of the most famous journeys in all exploration - Amundsen's conquest...

Penguin Bloom: The Odd Little Bird Who Saved a Family

Author	Cameron Bloom
ISBN	0733334946

Penguin Bloom is an extraordinary true story full of hope and courage, featuring Cameron Bloom's exceptional photographs and a captivating narrative by New York Times bestselling author Bradley Trevor Greive.

Penguin the Magpie is a global social media sensation. People the world over...

After the Banquet

Author

Yukio Mishima

For years Kazu has run her fashionable restaurant with a combination of charm and shrewdness. But when the she falls in love with one of her clients, an aristocratic retired politician, she renounces her business in order to become his wife. But it is not so easy to renounce her independent spirit, and...

Australia Day

Author

Melanie Cheng

Australia Day is a collection of stories by debut author Melanie Cheng. The people she writes abut are young, old, rich, poor, married, widowed, Chinese, Lebanese, Christian, Muslim. What they have in common—no matter where they come from—is the desire we all share to feel that we belong. The stories...