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ROME, MY SIBLING, MY EMPRESS
This is my fourth photobook on Rome, after 'Italia Nostra', 'Expressive Romans' and 'Seven living Splendors'; this book includes poems and portraits of contemporary Roman personages.
Large A4 book in color
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| |  | | Saint Malo, with love - photography by Albert Russo
Photo book with short poems by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier, in English and in French, highlighting the beautiful Breton port city of Saint Malo, from which the discoverers of Quebec hailed
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Mémoires d’outretombe
les tables seront dressées
pour un crépuscule des dieux
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Soon the tables will be set
and the night will enfold us as we dine,
listening to the murmrurs of the sea
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enchâssé entre son ombre
et la proue du Belem
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washing the quay
under the benevolent gaze
of a great old ship
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tandis que le ciel gronde
une bicyclette attend sereinement
le retour de son propriétaire
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see MIXED BLOOD (in English) included in the African trilogy 'The benevolent American in the heart of darkness'
see MIXED BLOOD (in English) included in the African trilogy 'The benevolent American in the heart of darkness' | |  | | Sardinia - photography by Albert Russo
Sardinia, Italy: its landscapes, its art and its people
| |  | | Senegal Live - photos - blurb.com
People & customs of Senegal, West Africa
| |  | | Seven living Splendors
Black and white photos of
Venice, Rome, Paris, New York,
Tel Aviv, Singapore and Jerusalem
that mix art, architecture and street scenes, with humorous juxtapositions, and in wild card fashion.
Photography by Albert Russo
http://www.amazon.com/Seven-living-Splendors-Singapore-photography/dp/1481851969
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Award finalist in National Best Books 2007,USAbooknews - Alexis, who grew up in Rwanda-Urundi, is the son of an Italian Jew and a beautiful mulatto woman. As a young adult, he now ponders over the complexity of his roots: African-European and Judeo-Christian (his mother was raised a Catholic). The author guides the reader through a progression of exciting and complicated episodes involving Alexis. With his American wife he will vacation in Israel, and that stay will be a turning point in his life. The past catches up with him, exploding with the images of one man's life kaleidoscope: the memories of his African years, colliding with the more recent images of Milan, the smells, the colors and the primeval beauty of the black continent, mingling with those of Italy, as well as with the violent feelings Israel stirs in him. In that dense and haunting atmosphere he will meet young Israelis, a Palestinian and Hans, a German professor, the nephew of a Nazi soldier who died during WWII. A new frienship will bind the young protagonist to the German professor, a friendship that could evolve into something larger, that could change the life of the two characters. Will Alexis finally reconcile himself with the conflicting parts of his identity? Will he feel more African or more European; more Catholic or more Jewish; or will his new environment help him find peace within himself, in spite of the country’s current dangers? The ‘mystery’ will unravel in the last chapter of this largely autobiographical novel.
PEN American Center - http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/170 Please join PEN in congratulating Albert Russo, whose recent book Shalom Tower Syndrome (Xlibris, 2007) was selected as a finalist in the Gay/Lesbian Fiction & Literature category of the National Best Books 2007 Awards. This novel, which was an award finalist in The National Best Books 2007 Awards, sponsered by USA Book News, is set, in Israel. It was published in the author's own French version in 2005 by Editions Hors Commerce, Paris, under the title 'La Tour Shalom'. | |  | | Speak to me Motherbeloved
SPEAK TO ME, MOTHER BELOVED is Albert Russo’s new book dedicated to his adored mother and to POETRY, with about 140 poems and as many photos in both black and white and in color, that he took along the years on the four continents in which he has resided and during his travels around the world.
This hardcover coffee-table volume is published by l’Aleph in Sweden - http://l-aleph.com/project/speak-to-me-mother-beloved/ - and is available from all major online bookstores, such as Amazon, Barnes and Noble, The Book Depository, etc. pages 284 - 8 x 10 in Case Laminate Bound on Creme - ISBN 978-91-7637-569-3.
span style="font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none; color: rgb(205, 0, 247);">Speak to me mother beloved /b>/span>span style="color: rgb(19, 23, 9); font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> is Albert Russo’s new book dedicated/span>span style="color: rgb(19, 23, 9); font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> to his adored mother and to POETRY, with about 140 poems and as many/span>span style="color: rgb(19, 23, 9); font-family: Helvetica; -webkit-font-kerning: none;"> photos in both black and white and in color, that he took along th | |  | | Sri Lanka / Serendib - photography by Albert Russo
Photo book on Sri Lanka with short poems by Albert Russo, Eric Tessier,and from the Dhammapada (teachings of the Buddha), in English and French
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cobra, o cobra
the fiercer your gesticulations
the closer I am to Him
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cobra, ô cobra
gesticule tant que tu veux
je suis son protégé
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no lions, not even
the lightning
can disturb Him
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ni les lions
ni même l’éclair ne peuvent
Le troubler
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whispers of wisdom
words of appeasement
in the sanctuary of Polonnaruwa
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paroles douces
paroles de sage
dans le sanctuaire de Polonnaruwa
b | |  | | Symphony in Hands major - photos - blurb.com
Live hands, hands sculpted, woven or painted, from antiquity to our days, express the whole gamut of human emotions.
Les mains sont le miroir de l'âme.
Live hands, hands sculpted, woven or painted, from antiquity to our days, express the whole gamut of human emotions.
Les mains sont le miroir de l'âme.
| |  | | Tel Aviv's Ethiopian Queen
Ziva, a young Ethiopian Israeli who has a Ph D in Social science and psychology, takes care of difficult teenagers, whether they are Israeli or immigrants - illegal or not, including Palestinian adolescents who have been chased away by their parents from Gaza or the West Bank, because of their politics or their sexual orientation. Among the people Ziva looks after is Haniya, an undocumented Jordanian transgender aged 15 who rebels and flees the shelter. She meets drug dealers and a Palestinian terrorist with whom she falls in love. He will convince her to join the Hamas organization. The day she is about to commit the terror attack against Israeli guards on the border with Gaza, she comes face to face with an Ethiopian woman soldier who reminds her so much of Ziva, that she falls to the ground and opens her vest, showing her belt of explosives. She will be judged, go to a correctional institution for two years, and when she is out, the first thing she does is return to the shelter, a transformed person whose main purpose will be to help her companions become strong and responsible members of the Israeli society. Ziva is in a terrible quandary, since the Immigration authorities are unaware of her existence - she slipped into Israel through the border between Israel and Jordan and appeared in Eilat, the famous resort city facing the Red Sea. Then there is Ismael, an Arab Israeli youth, raped by his uncle, who leaves his family home, Immanuel, a young Jewish Orthodox, who is openly gay and also flees from his Jerusalem ghetto, and finally there is young Yael, a Jewish girl from India. While having a drink at a terrace in Sarona with her parents, two Palestinian terrorists mowed down 15 people, killing her parents and severely injuring her. These are the characters of the novel, with, last, but not least, Ziva’s lover, Clifford, an American computer engineer who has moved to Tel Aviv.
Jeanette Skirvin and Albert Russo are two-award-winning authors. Some of their work has appeared on the 6 continents, in a dozen languages.
span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px; color: rgb(251, 2, 255);">Ziva/b>/span>span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">, a young Ethiopian Israeli who has a Ph D in Social science and psychology, takes care of difficult teenagers, whether they are Israeli or immigrants - illegal or not, including Palestinian adolescents who have been chased away by their parents from Gaza or the West Bank, because of their politics or/span>span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;"> /span>span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 16px;">their | |  | | The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness
'The benevolent American in the heart of Darkness' includes three of my award-winning African novels, namely: 'The Black Ancestor', 'Eclipse over lake Tanganyika' and 'Mixed Blood' - See JAMES BALDWIN's comments.
These novels take place in countries where I have lived for 17 years: the Congo, Rwanda and Burundi,which have been in the news for their tragic plight (the 1994 Rwandan tragedy in which about a million Tutsis have been murdered; Burundi, which has the same Hutu-Tutsi problem and where hundreds of thousands of people have been slaughterred, and, finally, Congo, where 4 million people have died within the last 4 years and which is still struggling). I have lived and gone to school with Tutsis and Hutus for at least 6 years and thus have a real knowsledge of their plight.
Synopsis of THE BLACK ANCESTOR, by Albert Russo
Africa or the quest for identity: the predicament of a white girl in the Belgian Congo and the terrible legacy of her American father.
Leodine, the daughter of Astrid, a beautiful Fleming, and of Gregory McNeil, a young and buoyant G.I. whom the latter had met in Northern France during WWII, grows up in the Belgian Congo with her mother, after her father died in a plane crash, flying from America to rejoin his family. After a couple of years, Astrid falls in love with Piet Van den Berg, and the latter will move in with them. Leodine is surrounded by the love of her mother and of Piet, whom she now considers as her stepfather, as well as by the affection of her maternal grandparents and of her uncle Jeff, still an adolescent.
One day her uncle, eavesdropping on his parents, will reveal to her that her deceased American father had a black great-grandmother. This news shatters the young girl and she becomes obsessed with the fact that she is of mixed blood, although she is so fair that no one could ever surmise it. But from this moment on her existence becomes a calvary. This will determine her whole future: she has decided never to marry, nor to bear a child who might be darker than herself.
The only friend she has at school is a pretty mulatto girl, half Portuguese, half-Angolan, named Yolande, and she finally decides to divulge to her the terrible secret. Later on, Yolande introduces her to her cousin Mario-Tende, a refined and intelligent student who lives at the Cité Indigène (the segregated black township). One afternoon, Leodine’s dear uncle Jeff is run over by a truck and she is so devastated, she feels she’s become an orphan for the second time.
Mario-Tende offers to tutor Leodine in the subjects she finds most difficult. A friendship evolves between the two, inasmuch as her uncle has left a huge void in her heart and that she can’t but compare him to Mario-Tende, for the two boys were about the same age and they were both bright and diligent students, albeit with a major difference, the one of course, being white and the other black. Mario-Tende has very strong and genuine feelings for the young girl, and one day, very naturally, very gently, the young man makes love to her. Panic-stricken, Leodine opens up to her mother, believing she is pregnant. But she is lucky and gets her periods.
After this grave occurrence, Astrid and her family decide to send the young girl away from the Congo. And it is thus that Leodine will go and study in far away Minnesota, where her paternal grandparents live. After college, she joins an Adventist convent, specialized in missionary work. She learns that Mario-Tende was killed in Angola, fighting for the independence of his country. Three decades after she left the Congo she will return to the land of her birth and witness the horror wrought following the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. Keeping to her promise, she never marries nor bears any child. But she will adopt a little Mozambican boy and name him ... Mario-Tende.
Synopsis of ECLIPSE OVER LAKE TANGANYIKA by Albert Russo
Setting: The story, based on historical events, is set in the former Rwanda-Urundi, a tiny landlocked territory in Central Africa held under Belgian trusteeship until 1962. The action takes place mainly in Buja, the lovely and seemingly dormant capital overlooking majestic Lake Tanganyika. At the time, the city’s population is about 70,000, comprising Congolese and a minority of Europeans of various origins, as well as Asians and Arabs.
Background: The time is just before Independence. The Tutsi, of nilotic origin, have been ruling over the region for the past four centuries. Under their yoke are the Hutu who constitute about 84% of the population and the Twa or pygmies (1%). But the Tutsi who consider themselves as the land’s aristocracy are themselves divided, both in lineage and politically. There are two main factions:
- the hardlners headed by Prince Ruego who intend to pave the way toward socialism and to loosen their ties with Belgium and the West.
- the pro-Western faction, the Christian Democrats, whose representative is the prince’s fun-loving father, the Mwami (king).
Plot: Damiana, the enticing wife of Tobias Antoniades, a wealthy Greek merchant twenty years younger than him, has the reputation of being a hot ticket in town. Among Damiana’s lovers are the Mwami himself, a Belgian police officer and Dimitri Stavros, a cinema owner. Damiana has added to her list a young American, Oswald Radcliffe, who works as a paramedic at the Evangelical mission. Oswald is a poet and an idealist.
Dimitri is terribly jealous and wants Damiana to divorce her husband. He knows about her affairs, and since Damiana doesn’t take him seriously, he decides to approach her husband, telling him about the Mwami and the Belgian police officer. That doesn’t deter Damiana, for Tobias, a weak man, with a heart ailment, scoffs at Dimitri. Outraged, Dimitri takes an unexpected step and goes and sees political opponents of the Prince, and meets with the Hutu leader Ntyca. He then comes back to Tobias and tells him that if the Prince wins the elections, all the foreign-owned businesses will be nationalized, including his. Tobias and other important representatives of the white community are summoned by Ntyca, and Tobias is ultimately convinced that he and his influential peers should support the Hutu majority financially.
The Prince, under house arrest, is released by the Belgians. The situation gets out of hand and consequently becomes very dangerous for the Hutu. The latter demand that Dimitri kill the prince. They threaten to down the Greek if he doesn’t accept. In return, they promise him a safe-conduct and a transfer of funds to Europe. Stavros shoots the Prince, while the latter is delivering a speech on the terrace of the Restaurant Tanganyika. Stavros flees, but in the middle of the night, his car breaks down. He waits on the side of the road when another car stops. The driver offers to give him a lift. The driver is none other than the king himself. The culprits are found out and the Hutu conspirators, Stavros as well as Tobias are executed.
This short novel has the ingredients of an African and a Greek Tragedy at once and I had originally thought of calling it PRINCES AND GODS.
Plot: Damiana, the enticing wife of Tobias Antoniades, a wealthy Greek merchant twenty years younger than him, has the reputation of being a hot ticket in town. Among Damiana’s lovers are the Tutsi Mwami himself, a Belgian police officer and Dimitri Stavros, a cinema owner. Damiana has added to her list a young American, Oswald Radcliffe, who works as a paramedic at the Evangelical mission. Oswald is a poet and an idealist. Dimitri is terribly jealous and wants Damiana to divorce her husband. To reach his aims he will gradually get involved in the local politics and before he realizes it he will be chosen as the hitman in the assassination of the Tutsi Prince Ruego, slated to become the country’s first Prime Minister.
Excerpts from the ‘World Literature Today’ review on the published French version of this novel:
“It takes a deft hand not only to make us believe in the various flesh-and-blood cast of characters and their beknotted lines of action but also to make us smell Africa, feel the voluptuous contact between human skins of different colors, rejoice in a sensuosity at once voluptuous and coolly observed, its heat utterly controlled, like a glowing horseshoe under the blows of an expert blacksmith.”
Synopsis of MIXED BLOOD or YOUR SON LEOPOLD by Albert Russo
The action takes place in the former Belgian Congo where Harry Wilson, an American from Baltimore, Maryland, settles down in the late thirties. Wilson owns a luxury boutique in Elisabethville, the capital city of the copper-rich province of Katanga. A homosexual, he lives with Mama Malkia, his strongwilled Congolese maid. Actually, she is much more than a maid to him, for he will ask her to go to the Catholic Mission and choose a mulatto baby whom he will adopt.
The novel is divided in three parts.
Part One is the story of Léopold Kitoko Wilson as told by the child himself. The boy evolves between two universes, the Congo and the USA, portrayed respectively by his black protectress Mama Malkia and by Harry, his adoptive father.
Léo attends a European Catholic school and leads the privileged life of a white boy. But some of his schoolmates make him feel an outcast. He befriends Ishaya, a Jewish boy who is so dark people mistake him for a Hindu or an Arab. Léo admires Ishaya for his pride and a certain arrogance, ‘qualities’ he himself lacks. It is through Léo’s eyes that the reader gets acquainted with colonial Africa under the rule of the Belgians. Soon, Léo will suffer from his status as a mulatto. Neither white nor black, Léo feels estranged from both races; on the other hand, Léo knows his adoptive father is not like other men, and this ‘difference’ also disturbs him. Yet, Harry Wilson, a tactful and responsible man, will do everything so that Léo grows up like any ‘normal’ boy, praying that one day he will marry and raise a family of his own. There are, however, some inevitable scenes between Harry and lis lovers, Giorgos, a temperamental Greek and a meek Belgian officer. A terrible fight will oppose Harry to the former.
In Part Two of the novel, it is Harry who speaks. He does so,using the diary form. It is very intimate and is not intended to be read by Léo.
Part Three will be in the words of Mama Malkia. She will consult her elders and the witchdoctor of her village and tell them of Léo’s adoption, of her strange yet kindly American employer. She will tell us of Léo’s departure for the US after graduation from High School, of his return to Elisabethville in the Summer of 1960 for the Independence festivities. She will be the one to announce Harry’s death to Léo, recounting how his stepfather was shot by U.N. soldiers while driving to the pharmacy downtown, to buy medicine for her.
About Mixed Blood or Your son Leopold:
This is what Edmund White, the acclaimed biographer of Jean Genet and author of many bestselling novels wrote concerning Mixed Blood or Your son Leopold:
"Albert Russo has recreated through a young African boy's joys and struggles many of the tensions of modern life, straight and gay, black and white, third world and first ... all of these tensions underlie this story of a biracial African adopted by a gay American. And Mixed Blood or Your son Leopold is a non-stop, gripping read!"
Excerpt from James Baldwin's letter to the | |  | | The Crowded World of Solitude, volume 1, the collected stories
WRITER'S DIGEST AWARD Judge's commentary:
What I like most about this collection is its variety - there are stories set in Africa, stories for children, essays, science fiction, fantasy... in short, this is one writer who is incredibly diverse, and seems to be able to do a remarkable number of different things. All in all, a really terrific collection, with some lovely prose.
While certainly it's not the case that every story is a masterpiece, the ones that are excellent clearly outweigh the few that are not. And again, l'm a bit awed by the sheer volume of material here, produced over a number of years. This is really an impressive collection.
Writer'sDigest 13th Annual Intemational Self-Published Book Awards Commentary Sheet
The book won an honorable mention in the 2005
13th Annual Writer's Digest International Self-Published Book Awards
Co-sponsored by Book Marketing Works, LLC
Philadelphia, PA, USA. Xlibris Corporation. 2005. 503 pages.
$26.99 softcover, ISBN 1-4134-7016-5;
$36.99 hardcover, ISBN 1-4134-7017-3
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As goes the Zen proverb, the difference between heaven and hell is the thickness of a leaf. In the stories making up the Crowded World of Solitude collection Albert Russo may be said to be writing about what Indian | |  | | The Crowded World of Solitude, volume 2, the collected poems
PEDESTAL MAGAZINE:
It is one of that rarest of books, one which seems to contain a hearty cross-section of the writer’s output over the past several years,its themes are just as ambitious as its size; in the book’s more than five hundred pages, Russo writes on such eternal subjects as the vicissitudes of love, the impersonality of modern living, and man’s inhumanity toward man. He also tackles smaller, more immediate subjects, including Aesop-like animal fables, odes to female beauty, even complaints about the unfairness of publishers and literary critics.
DRAMATIS PERSONAE
They call me Gianni
They call me Jim
But also Dominic
In both genders
In every guise
Whether it be Gianni, Jim or Dominic
In the present tense as in the past
First or third person
We're talking of the same person
With the difference that each one
Speaks in another tongue
Confounding strangers
Claims the spiteful gossip
At times Gianni and Jim will be one and the same
At times they will oppose each other
Sometimes they might act as total strangers
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The African Quatuor of Albert Russo includes the author’s award-winning novels set in the former Belgian Congo and Rwanda-Urundi, with historical facts which will surprise the English-speaking readers who are only aware of the often distorted reports they gather in today’s media, that do not differentiate between the cruel era of King Léopold II and the Belgian Congo, created in 1908, after the international scandal.
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I miss Italy. I miss strangers who speak to you, even when they are nosy. Ok, sometimes they get on my nerves. Is it better to be around these Parisians to whom you are invisible and who turn to you only when they have something unpleasant to say? Compared to Rome or Naples, Milan is supposed to be a cold city. Compared to Paris, it’s the sunny Mediterranean. In reality, the sun is often veiled by pollution, and the climate is perhaps the worst in Europe, Venice comes close, with its damp winters and its suffocating summers. Ah, la bella Italia ! But how about France, mère des Armes, des Arts et des Lois ! (France, Mother of Arms, of Arts and of Laws), which is the title of a beautiful poem by Joachim Du Bellay. As for New York, rain, drizzle, dirt or snow, I can’t live without it. I now have three passports, Italian, American and French. Oh là là, do I feel suddenly humble! Meanwhile life goes on, with my heart split between Margo, my lovely Parisian wife and Flavio, my dashing, jealous Venitian lover, entre les deux, mon coeur balance.
span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">The story is recounted by a thirty-something writer of Italian-American descent, whose parents have settled in Paris; his /span>b style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">mother, Emily/b>span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">, a New Yorker by birth, teaches contemporary art at the American University, while /span>b style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">his father, Massimo/b>span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 15px;">, originally from Monza (Lombardy, Italy) is himself | |  | | Tour du monde de la poésie gay
gay poetry from around the world in French
| |  | | Under the Shirttails of Albert Russo by Adam Donaldson Powell
"UNDER THE SHIRTTAILS of ALBERT RUSSO
by Adam Donaldson Powell
‘…can perhaps be likened to skipping a small rock across a pond—creating ripples and reverberations which both reflect the greater omnipotence of the water and temporarily alter its periphery and identity.’ Such are the words of Adam Donaldson Powell, master weaver behind this literary tapestry that is the warp of a lifetime’s footsteps weft with a view into the poetry, novel excerpts and an intimate portrait boutique of one brilliant international award-winning multilingual poet, novelist, essayist, historian and photographer—Albert Russo—a man with a claim to no country though a citizen of many soils - in his profoundly penetrating yet sensitively penned work—‘an alternative biography’—unveiled." —
Jeanette Skirvin, award-winning author of Snow Sizzling in Soleil and FACE, co-editor of STARK, the Poetry Journal
UNDER THE SHIRTTAILS of ALBERT RUSSO
An alternative biography
by Adam Donaldson Powell
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Venice, the Lido, the historical regatta and the film festival
Venice, the Lido, the historical regatta and the film festival
with two short stories set in Venice
| |  | | Viennese kaleidoscope - photobook - Blurb.com
Vienna, Austria, the formal imperial capital and the modern city
Note: right now this book can only be ordered directly from Albert Russo
| |  | | Visions of Venice - photos - blurb.com
Venice of gold and of masks
Venice in glory and during carnival
| |  | | Zapinette Baguette and Tagliatelle
Zapinette lives with her mother, a staunch ‘felinist’who owns a beauty parlor in Paris, as well as with Firmin, the latter’s boyfriend. The girl however feels much closer to her ‘Unky Berky’, in spite of the fact that he is “such a weirdo at times and can get on her bloomin nerves”. Through Firmin, ‘the vermin’, she learns that her beloved uncle is a ‘homey setchual’. They will travel to Italy together and the trip promises to be quite bumpy.
span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Geneva; ">Zapinette lives with her mother, a staunch ‘felinist’who owns a beauty parlor in Paris, as well as with Firmin, the latter’s boyfriend. The girl however feels much closer to her ‘Unky Berky’, in spite of the fact that he is “such a weirdo at times and can get on her bloomin nerves”. Through Firmin, ‘the vermin’, she learns that her beloved uncle is a ‘homey setchual’. They will travel to Italy together and the trip promises to be quite bumpy./span>
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Zapinette lives with her mother, a staunch ‘felinist’ who owns a beauty parlor in Paris, as well as with her ‘Unky Berky’, in spite of the fact that he is “such a weirdo at times and can get on her bloomin nerves”. They will travel to four continents together and the trips promise to be quite bumpy. In this book, she investigates the BIBLE, and goes on to visit MEXICO, JAPAN and THE NORTH POLE.
Zapinette's Bible Odyssey continues in Japan, Mexico and the North Pole
WORLD LITERATURE TODAY:br />
“... This series is a great ramble, rather like a chapterless Montaigne popping from one subject to the next, drawing connections no one else would ever have thought of, but with Groucho Marx, say, passing on hints over the writer’s shoulder as to how to go about it. We readers chuckle along and even burst out laughing as we advance through this hilarious book, but we gather, we too willy-nilly, the serious messages underlying the frolicking boun | |  | | Zulu Zapy wins the Rainbow Nation, the hilarious sequel
“Zapy and her unky Berky win a ‘humanitarian’ journey to South Africa, a journey promising to be full of surprises and adventures. When they realize that this trip will not resemble any of the ‘marvellous and fun’ vacations advertised in the travel brochures, it is already too late, for, in his enthusiasm, unky Berky signed the contract, without reading the small type.
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 This book is an autobiographical account of the lessons I learned about life and how I was able to apply them to inspire, motivate and empower others in my own work as a firefighter, as well in my daily life as a husband, a father and a man. When I w |
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