Gilbert Sinoué
Author of Le livre de saphir
About the Author
Image credit: Gilbert Sinoué le 14 juin 2012 à Paris, France
Series
Works by Gilbert Sinoué
Inch' Allah - Le Souffle Du Jasmin (Litterature Generale) (French Edition) (2010) 51 copies, 4 reviews
Sen Bana Mevsimlerden Söz Et 1 copy
A la découverte de Toutankhamon (Les Contemporains classiques de demain, 234) (French Edition) (2016) 1 copy
Au Couchant, l'espérance 1 copy
Nil'in Kızı 1 copy
La signora della lampada 1 copy
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Sinoué, Gilbert
- Legal name
- Kassab, Samir-Gilbert
- Other names
- Kassab, Samir (Peudonyme)
Cassab, Gilbert (Peudonyme)
Krissen, Peter (Peudonyme)
Ber, Gil (Peudonyme)
SINOUÉ, Gilbert - Birthdate
- 1947-02-18
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Ecole normale de musique de Paris-Alfred Cortot (Guitare)
Collège de la Sainte-Famille, Le Caire - Occupations
- Romancier
Parolier (Chanson)
Professeur (Guitare)
Scénariste - Short biography
- Gilbert Sinoué a suivi un drôle de parcours. Il est né en Egypte, en 1947. Après des études chez les jésuites, il vient à Paris pour suivre l'Ecole normale de musique. Il a alors dix-neuf ans et ne connaît qu'une seule personne dans la capitale. «En Egypte, je vivais sur un bateau, celui que mon père avait racheté au roi Farouk. Il l'avait transformé en navire de croisière pour les touristes. C'est là que j'ai vu chanter Jacques Brel et que j'ai eu la certitude qu'un jour j'écrirais.» Ses débuts parisiens sont difficiles. Il se produit dans des boîtes de nuit, compose. Et puis une première chanson est choisie par Isabelle Aubret, d'autres ensuite par Claude François, Dalida, Jean Marais, Marie Laforêt, Jean-Claude Pascal... «Un jour, j'ai tout arrêté - l'approche de la quarantaine probablement - et j'ai commencé mon premier roman. Je l'ai envoyé par la Poste à Olivier Orban qui l'a publié. Parallèlement, il imagine un feuilleton-fleuve (cent cinquante épisodes), Le destin du docteur Calvet. «J'ai appris à écrire de manière concise, claire, à un rythme d'enfer.» Gilbert Sinoué est devenu romancier à plein temps avec plusieurs gros succès comme Le livre de saphir ou L'enfant de Bruges, étudié dans certaines écoles.
Dans son appartement de Neuilly, comme dans son bureau situé dans l'immeuble voisin, tout rappelle ses intérêts. Des photos de son fils bien sûr, dont ce père tardif affirme qu'il a changé sa vie. Plusieurs beaux livres sur l'Egypte et un narguilé qu'il aime fumer de temps en temps. La photo du fameux bateau de son père, sur lequel il a passé la plus grande partie de son enfance, est posée contre la bibliothèque, à côté du fac-similé du contrat de Flaubert pour Madame Bovary: 800 francs d'à-valoir! Un portrait de Lawrence Durrell nous apprend que Le quatuor d'Alexandrie est son livre de chevet depuis toujours, avec Le rivage des Syrtes de Julien Gracq. La guitare, qu'il gratte encore un peu pour son fils, n'accompagne plus aucune chanson. Tout cela appartient au passé. Aux murs, des peintures de sa femme qui jadis fut infirmière. Dans son bureau s'ouvrant sur un petit jardin, l'ordinateur tient une place de choix. «Je débute souvent mes recherches sur Internet.» En ce moment, il travaille sur Akhenaton. Il ne prend jamais de vacances entre deux livres. «D'abord parce que je vis de ma plume et qu'ensuite il faut que je combatte mon côté oriental. J'aurais une fâcheuse tendance à faire de longues siestes tous les jours. Il faut donc bien que j'aie un aiguillon.» Tout près de lui, il y a la Bible. Il lit régulièrement le Coran, le Nouveau Testament et la Torah. Par passion, par curiosité. Pour tenter de trouver une réponse à l'éternelle question: que faisons-nous sur terre? L'a-t-il trouvée? Probablement pas, mais c'est cette réponse précisément qu'il recherche à travers tous ses livres.
Pascale Frey - Nationality
- Egypt
- Birthplace
- Le Caire, Egypte
- Map Location
- Egypt
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Reviews
Donna dal carattere mutevole e contraddittorio, Florence Nightingale esce da questa biografia come un soggetto psichiatrico più che come pioniera in campo infermieristico. Non amo le agiografie, ma questo volume mi lascia, a fine lettura, una forte impressione di superficialità e di ricerca tutt'altro che meticolosa.
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"Le Cri Des Pierres", (Inch’ Allah #2) or in English "The Scream Of Stone" is the second book in the "Inch' Allah" Trilogy by Gilbert Sinoué, describing the flaming situation in Middle East from 1956 to the devastating 2001 and the memorable September 11th.
"The Scream Of Stone" is an actual Scream of the people looking for a country, looking for their roots, looking for justice, looking for revenge. As usual, the great forces of the time, had show more divided the area according to their needs. Governments never cared for the poor citizens, why would they now. But those citizens have now become powerful with the means those external forces gave them. Their belief and their will to become free, as they define freedom themselves not as others do.
Sinoué is a mastermind of historical fiction. He is great in describing a very flowable historical timeframe through the lives of five families, following them from the first book to this one. Heroes of “The Breath of Jasmine” have bread new heroes to thrive for their cause. Either this is the Israeli one or the Palestinian one. Great personalities that most of us have come to know through the 80s and the 90s, pop up from the book's pages and drive us back to memories of the Palestinian cause negotiations.
It doesn't tire us though. The description of the historical moments is so vivid and short in length, that is here only to serve the books needs. At least this is the impression we take. Yet again, the reader can see the passion of the two sides, the faults that both have done, the birth of Fatah, Hezbollah, and the very known to all Al-Qaeda. It is more than a reading, it's history through a nice book. All the facts that are described are justified through sources provided at the end of the book.
The series is a must read for all! As a reminder of what has happened and what can be. People don't just rouse because of religion and fanatic beliefs. There is a bigger cause behind that and the roots may go really back in time, before we were even born. People are not just crazy fanatics. Yes, there are some lunatics, but they are not all as such... show less
"Le Cri Des Pierres", (Inch’ Allah #2) or in English "The Scream Of Stone" is the second book in the "Inch' Allah" Trilogy by Gilbert Sinoué, describing the flaming situation in Middle East from 1956 to the devastating 2001 and the memorable September 11th.
"The Scream Of Stone" is an actual Scream of the people looking for a country, looking for their roots, looking for justice, looking for revenge. As usual, the great forces of the time, had show more divided the area according to their needs. Governments never cared for the poor citizens, why would they now. But those citizens have now become powerful with the means those external forces gave them. Their belief and their will to become free, as they define freedom themselves not as others do.
Sinoué is a mastermind of historical fiction. He is great in describing a very flowable historical timeframe through the lives of five families, following them from the first book to this one. Heroes of “The Breath of Jasmine” have bread new heroes to thrive for their cause. Either this is the Israeli one or the Palestinian one. Great personalities that most of us have come to know through the 80s and the 90s, pop up from the book's pages and drive us back to memories of the Palestinian cause negotiations.
It doesn't tire us though. The description of the historical moments is so vivid and short in length, that is here only to serve the books needs. At least this is the impression we take. Yet again, the reader can see the passion of the two sides, the faults that both have done, the birth of Fatah, Hezbollah, and the very known to all Al-Qaeda. It is more than a reading, it's history through a nice book. All the facts that are described are justified through sources provided at the end of the book.
The series is a must read for all! As a reminder of what has happened and what can be. People don't just rouse because of religion and fanatic beliefs. There is a bigger cause behind that and the roots may go really back in time, before we were even born. People are not just crazy fanatics. Yes, there are some lunatics, but they are not all as such... show less
Η συνέχεια της “Αιγυπτίας” είναι ένα ακόμα απολαυστικό μυθιστόρημα! Ο Σινουέ είναι κατά τη γνώμη μου ένας από τους καλύτερους ιστορικούς συγγραφείς του αιώνα και το αποδεικνύει με κάθε του βιβλίο. Απλά αριστουργηματικό!
Bundan yaklaşık 13-14 yıl önce okumuştum ve çok sevmiştim. Beni Endülüs'ten haberdar kılan kitap olmuştu. Çok iyi bir tarihi arka plana sahip ve üç semavi din hakkında pek çok ayrıntı mevcut, bunların yanında çözülmesi gereken şifreler ve bir arayış. Eğer iyi yazılmış bir tarihi roman okumak istiyorsanız biçilmiş kaftan.
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