De l'autre côté du lac

Name: De l'autre côté du lac
ISBN: 9782707358233

by Sylvain Prudhomme

Prix Goncourt · 2026 · Shortlist

Amazon Audible Libro.fm

MinuitAugust 27, 2026Literary Fiction288 pagesISBN 9782707358233

Award History

Award	Year	Status	Citation
Prix Goncourt	2026	Shortlist	“A photographer working beside a closed mountain reserve sees what the others miss, stays on alone, and then disappears.”

About This Book

Beside a high-mountain lake, at the edge of a reserve closed to people, a photographer sees something the research team misses, stays on alone, and then disappears. Named to the deuxième sélection of the 2026 Prix Goncourt.

About the Author

Sylvain PrudhommeFR

Sylvain Prudhomme is a French novelist born in 1979 in Grasse. He grew up partly in Africa — his father worked for a development organization in Cameroon and Namibia — and this experience of displacement and cross-cultural encounter is central to much of his fiction. He has also lived in Italy, experience that feeds into his body of work. Read more →