Albert Russo

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  • Bibliography:
    27 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1998
  • Latest Book:
    April 2021
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Full Series List in Order

The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness

Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika (May-2000)
The Black Ancestor (Sep-2009)

Gosh

Parisian Zapy (Jun-2012)
Zapy Back in Gay Paree (Jun-2012)
Zapy Goes to New York (Jun-2012)
Zapy in Macaroniland (Jun-2012)

Book List in Order: 27 titles

  • Zapinette Video

    Zapinette lives with her mother, a staunch "felinist", who owns a beauty parlor in Paris, as well as with Firmin, the latter's boyfriend. She feels much closer though to her Unky Berky, in spite of the fact that she learns he is a 'homey setchual'....

  • Zapinette Video - Oh Zaperetta!

    Zapinette lives with her mother, a staunch "felinist", who owns a beauty parlor in Paris, as well as with Firmin, the latter's boyfriend. She feels much closer though to her Unky Berky, in spite of the fact that she learns he is a 'homey setchual'....

  • Eclipse over Lake Tanganyika

    The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness

  • Mixed Blood: Or Your Son Leopold

  • Unmasking Hearts

  • Zany: Zapinette New York

  • Oh Zaperetta!

    THE LITERARY REVIEW: “... Be warned, Zapinette´s gems of insouciant wit tend to become infectious. This wise-child´s deceptively worldly innocence takes the entire gamut of human endeavor in its compass. Hardly anyone or anything escapes unsc...

  • The Crowded World of Solitude Volume 1

    WORLD LITERATURE TODAY: Albert Russos collected stories included in this hefty volume constitute an excellent testimony on the writers ability to create fiction which is both entertaining and thought-provoking in a surprising variety of contexts. Al...

  • The Crowded World of Solitude Vol. 2

    Preface by LEIGH EDUARDO, British poet and musician.I have never met Albert Russo and yet, through his writing, I feel I have had that privilege. He possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few words. ...



  • The Crowded World of Solitude Volume 2

    Preface by LEIGH EDUARDO, British poet and musician.

    I have never met Albert Russo and yet, through his writing, I feel I have had that privilege. He possesses that rare and enviable talent of being able to say what is important in a very few wo...

  • Shalom Tower Syndrome

    Alexis Romani, the protagonist, and his American-born wife, Serena are spending a few months in Israel. They normally live in Milan, Italy, where Alexis, in his mid-thirties, holds an important position in a multinational company. He is going through...

  • The Black Ancestor

    The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness

    When Leodine, a young white girl living in the Belgian Congo, discovers that her great-grandmother was African, she feels tainted and somehow unclean. New dilemmas arise in her life. Should she continue to befriend Yolande, the mulatto girl at her sc...

  • And There Was David-Kanza

    This is the story of Sandro Romano-Livi, a young Italian Jew, who leaves his Mediterranean island by boat for the Belgian Congo (DR Congo) in 1926 as a stowaway...of the first fifteen years of his adventurous life in Central Africa...of David-Kanza (...

  • Embers under My Skin

    Book of poems accompanied with full-page (mainly) Color and some B&W photographs which I took around the world (including the 3 continents where I have lived: Africa, America and Europe) during various periods of my life. 132 pages View my other poet...

  • Parisian Zapy

    Gosh

    A hilarious, irreverent romp through the life of a child of the 90's! Set in Paris and Northern Italy [refers to the first 3 volumes], the work shows us the world through the eyes of Zapinette, a little girl who is smart, quick-witted, accepting and ...

  • Zapy Back in Gay Paree

    Gosh

    A hilarious, irreverent romp through the life of a child of the 90's! Set in Paris and Northern Italy [refers to the first 3 volumes], the work shows us the world through the eyes of Zapinette, a little girl who is smart, quick-witted, accepting and ...

  • Zapy Goes to New York

    Gosh

    Zapinette is back for a new adventure in New York City. Albert Russo has managed to avoid the two pitfalls of the writer of sequels, duplication and inflation. The child narrator of Zapinette à New York is just as natural as she was in Zapinette Vid...

  • Zapy in Macaroniland

    Gosh

    A hilarious, irreverent romp through the life of a child of the 90's! Set in Paris and Northern Italy [refers to the first 3 volumes], the work shows us the world through the eyes of Zapinette, a little girl who is smart, quick-witted, accepting and ...

  • Fotoripples

    Photos I have taken throughout my life, shifting roots from continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe - and during my travels around the world, spanning six decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictures that mix scenes and per...



  • Fotoripples / 2

    Fotoripples, vol.2: Photos I have taken throughout my life, shifting roots from continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe - as well as during my travels around the world, spanning six decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictu...

  • Fotoripples / 3

    Photos the author has taken throughout his life, shifting roots from continent to continent - Africa, The United States and Europe - as well as during his travels around the world, spanning six decades. Photo juxtapositions and quirky pictures that m...

  • Au Naturel // born naked

    Portraits of the author, alone or accompanied, taken in Africa, The US, Europe, where he has resided, and around the world, in different stages of his life, with pictures of his abode. Note: the quality of the photos is variable, this book being prim...

  • Seven living Splendors

  • Mother beloved, Mamica mia

    Photos, prose and poems relating to my beloved mother Sarah Russo during her long itinerary from her birth in 1920 on the island of Rhodes (Greece), through Southern and Central Africa, Italy and Belgium, where she lived, as well as through her trave...

  • African quatuor of award-winning novels on the Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi

  • GOSH, ZAPINETTE!

  • Three colors of the rainbow

    The story is recounted by a thirty-something writer of Italian-American descent, whose parents have settled in Paris; his mother, Emily, a New Yorker by birth, teaches contemporary art at the American University, while his father, Massimo, originally...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Albert Russo has published 27 books.

Albert Russo does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Three colors of the rainbow, was published in April 2021.

The first book by Albert Russo, Zapinette Video, was published in June 1998.

Yes. Albert Russo has 2 series.
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