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Autumn seasonPublished Sep 5, 20261 min readSep 5, 2026 · 1 min

Sophie Divry sets social critique and ecological unease against an Alpine backdrop

In her new novel « Rochebrune », the writer combines the immediate post-Covid period with a mountain tragedy, according to Le Monde.

An isolated stone chalet perched on a steep Alpine slope at dusk, evoking the closed-circle mountain setting of Sophie Divry's novel.
An isolated stone chalet perched on a steep Alpine slope at dusk, evoking the closed-circle mountain setting of Sophie Divry's novel.

Sophie Divry has published a new novel, « Rochebrune », set partly in the period just after the Covid pandemic and built around a tragedy that unfolds in the mountains, according to Le Monde.

Le Monde describes the book as bringing together social and political critique with ecological anxiety, in what the paper frames as a closed-circle story set in the Alps. The description places the novel within Divry's continuing interest in the social, political and intimate lives of her contemporaries, a preoccupation the paper says has run through her work.

No further details of plot, publisher or length were given in the source material available to this desk.

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