Ben Pastor
THE LADY IN YELLOW
Saturday 24 October 2026, 6.00 pm
Bellano Movie Theater (LC)
Free admission
The programme continues on Saturday 24 October with an evening dedicated to Ben Pastor, an internationally renowned crime writer and lecturer in social sciences at American universities: ‘The Lady in Yellow’ is the title of the event, which will conclude with a ‘risotto-style’ crime dinner in the company of the author and the audience. The occasion marks the arrival in bookshops of *Lo specchio del pellegrino* (Sellerio, 2026), the latest novel featuring Martin Bora, one of the most beloved characters in the historical crime novels published by Sellerio. The protagonist is, in fact, an officer in the German Wehrmacht and a collaborator with the secret services, torn between obedience to his uniform and his aversion to the horrors of Nazism. Ben Pastor, born in Rome but a naturalised American citizen, is regarded as one of the most authoritative voices in contemporary historical crime fiction and a leading writer of the so-called Postmodernist movement, as attested by the acclaim and scholarly work of the leading US literary critic, Fredric Jameson of Duke University.
