Alice Basso presents “The eighty questions of Atena Ferraris” (Garzanti)
“Alice Basso has created the perfect protagonist.” Patrizia Violi, La lettura – Corriere della Sera
Having many unanswered questions is not exactly simple. Trust me, that’s Atena Ferraris speaking. To be honest, looking for logical solutions to everything is instinctive for me. That's also why I founded a puzzles magazine. I work at home, alone, because I don’t know how to be around people. Yet, since I helped my brother Febo unmask a cheating magician, I find myself increasingly confronted with other people. I even found a guy who wants to get to know me and new friends. Now one of them, Elisa, needs my help to solve the mystery of a threatening letter. Everyone trusts my abilities because I’m very good at solving other people's problems. However, now that I go out more often, I'm not at all sure it’s true, because I have a ton of questions about myself, and I don’t like it one bit. Atena Ferraris is a special character who teaches us to be patient, because a solution can always be found, even when you are full of questions.
Alice Basso has worked for various publishing houses as an editor, translator, and evaluator of publishing proposals. In her free time, she loves singing and writing songs, playing the saxophone, and drawing. With Garzanti, she has published the adventures of the ghostwriter Vani: The Unpredictable Plan of the Nameless Writer (2015), Writing is a Dangerous Profession (2016), Don't Tell the Writer (2017), The Mystery Writer (2018), A Special Case for the Ghostwriter (2019), and the short stories The Christmas Ghostwriter (2017), Birth of a Ghostwriter (2018), A Special Case for the Ghostwriter (2019), The Bite of the Viper (2020), The Cry of the Rose (2021). From 2022 A Star Without Light, a story full of twists and dangers set in Italy in 1935. In 2025, she introduces a new protagonist, Atena Ferraris, with The Twenty-Seven Alarms of Atena Ferraris.
Free admission until seats are filled.
San Martino di Castrozza, Congress Hall, 6:00 p.m.
