Sylvain Prudhomme turns an Alpine wilderness into a novel of obsession and vanishing
In "De l'autre côté du lac," out this rentrée, the French writer transplants his fascination with a strict nature reserve in the Écrins massif into a suspense novel about a narrator haunted by a photographer who disappeared in the mountains.
According to Le Monde, Sylvain Prudhomme has built his new novel, "De l'autre côté du lac," around a réserve intégrale in the Parc naturel des Écrins, a protected Alpine zone whose wildness had long fascinated him. The book follows a narrator consumed by his obsession with a photographer who vanished in the mountains.
Le Monde presents the novel as both a suspense story and what it calls a hymn to the wild, with the reserve itself functioning as more than backdrop: a natural sanctuary that shapes the narrator's fixation and the book's atmosphere of disappearance and pursuit.
The novel appears as part of this year's rentrée littéraire. No further plot or publication details were given in the available material.
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