A hilarious, irreverent romp through the life of a child of the 90’s! Set in Paris and Northern Italy, the work shows us the world through the eyes of Zapinette, a little girl who is smart, quick-witted, accepting and dazzling. Russo’s use of slang...
Antonia Felix reputed soprano, poet and author of several nonfiction books including biographies of Harry Connick, Jr., Irish tenor, John MacNally; Condoleeza Rice and Andrea Bocelli: A Celebration, published by St. Martinʼs Press. One of the greatest delights of...
Imagine James Joyce at the height of his logophiliac talents, walking along the Seine and wordplaying with a nonchalance so serious that vendors, tourists, even sophisticated Parisian matrons turn their heads–the latter often shocked by the sexual innuendos and...
Pre-teen Esmeralda McInnerny lives in France with her Italian mother and sexually experimental uncle, Alberic. Unky Berky, as she calls him, has given her the nickname Zapinette. Zapinette spends her days obsessed with adult sexuality, which she does not completely...
On the road to the 20th century the German poet Heinrich Heine wrote, “Give me a mask and I’ll join the masquerade.” At the turn of the 21st century, Albert Russo has written Zapinette, a novel that is an acerbically witty commentary on fin-de-siècle...
When Albert Russo is asked about the translations he sometimes makes of his own works, he replies that he does not feel comfortable with the verb ‘translate’ and much prefers to use ‘render’. Reading Zapinette, Russo’s own adaptation of...
