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Gilbert Sinoué

Inshallah Gilbert Sinoué
T1. the breath of jasmine , Flammarion April 2010
T2. cry the stones, Flammarion October 2010

1916-2001. At the heart of the East, four families - Jewish, Palestinian, Iraqi and Egyptian - fragile and strong characters, moving and warriors, trying to survive the sinking of the West imposes on them. At thousands of miles away, a French diplomat observes helplessly as the beginnings of the Apocalypse, while resonating in his mind the ultimate question: the sound of bombs overlap there forever breath of jasmine? (Publisher)

Biography by Pascale Frey (Source: Wikipedia), see also his web page
Sinoué Gilbert is a French writer born Cairo 18 February 1947.

After studying with the Jesuits, he comes to Paris to attend the Normal School of Music. He was then nineteen years old and knows only one person in the capital. "'In Egypt, I lived on a boat that my father had bought the King Farouk. He had transformed into a cruise ship for tourists. That's when I saw singing Jacques Brel and I was certain that one day I would write. 'Her Paris debut is difficult. He has performed in nightclubs, composed. And the first song was chosen by Johnny Logan, other then by Claude Francis, Dalida, Jean Marais, Marie Laforet, Jean-Claude Pascal
... "One day I stopped everything - the approach of the quarantine probably - and I started my first novel. I sent it by post to Olivier Orban, who has published. "Meanwhile, he imagines a drama-river (one hundred fifty episodes), 'The fate of Dr. Calvet' . "I learned to write concisely, clearly, at a rate of hell, '" Gilbert Sinoué became full-time novelist with several blockbusters like' The child Bruges', studied in some schools. After his studies and training of a classical guitar teacher at the Ecole Normale de Musique-Alfred Cortot in Paris, he wrote several historical novels, including:

• ' Avicenna or the road of Esfahan ' (1989) , fictionalized biography of the great Persian physician born in 980 near Bukhara (Uzbekistan) and died in 1037 in Hamadan (Iran).
• ' sapphire The Book' (1996), story of the quest for a sacred manuscript by a trio of scholars esotericists three monotheistic religions in Spain of the Inquisition on the eve of the fall of Granada in 1492 . Book which has been awarded Booksellers Award in 1996.

Two other novels have helped his reputation as a wonderful storyteller: 'The Purple and olives or the Pope Callistus I forgot ', written in 1987 and won the Jean hours for best historical novel, and ' The Egyptian ', the first volume of a saga which describes an Egypt still poorly known, that the eighteenth and s, which won the literary prize of the Latin Quarter. In 2004, 'The Silence of God ' receives the Grand Prize of crime fiction.
Sinoué Gilbert is also a screenwriter and Dialogue. One of his novels, ' Days of Night has been an adaptation television in two parts, directed by Thierry Chabert, Stéphane Freiss, Claire Nebout and Caterina Murino in the lead roles. He also co-wrote a drama, 'The Tale of Three key', released in December 2007.

In his apartment in Neuilly, as in his office in the building next door, everything reminds her interests. Photos of his son of course, whose late father that he says changed his life. Several fine books on Egypt and he likes to smoke a hookah from time to time. The famous photo of his father's boat, where he spent the greater part of his childhood, is leaning against the bookcase, next to the facsimile of the contract Flaubert "Madame Bovary ': 800 francs to argue! A portrait of Lawrence Durrell tells us that 'The Alexandria Quartet is his favorite book ever since, with' The shore of Syrtis' Julien Gracq. The guitar, he scratches a little for his son, does not accompany any song. All this is history. On the walls, paintings of his wife who was formerly a nurse. In his office opens onto a small garden, the computer holds a special place. "I often start my research on the Internet. At this moment he is working on 'Akhenaten'. He never takes a holiday between two books. "First because I live with my pen and then I need to East fights on my side. I have a tendency to take long naps every day. Therefore although I have a sting. "Everything about him is the Bible. He regularly reads the Koran, New Testament and the Torah. By passion, curiosity. In an attempt to find an answer to the eternal question: What on earth are we doing? The has he found? Probably not, but it is precisely this answer he is looking through all his books.