#InvisibleCitiesProject: February 2021 Selected Countries

     Today we are releasing the country selections for February 2021! I know it is early to be thinking about February, however, we (Invisible Cities Hosts) want to give all participants time to attain books from their selected countries. With the current pandemic it will take longer than usual with shipping, please plan accordingly when collecting your list of books. 

February's Selections are: 

• Egypt

• China 

• Columbia

I will spend the month focussing on Egypt. There are a few books that I aim to read for this month, however, the one I will spend the most time on is The Cairo Trilogy by: Nguib Mahfouz. This trilogy follows: 

"The novels of The Cairo Trilogy trace three generations of the family of tyrannical patriarch Al-Sayyid Ahmad Abd al-Jawad, who rules his household with a strict hand while living a secret life of self-indulgence. Palace Walk introduces us to his gentle, oppressed wife, Amina, his cloistered daughters, Aisha and Khadija, and his three sons–the tragic and idealistic Fahmy, the dissolute hedonist Yasin, and the soul-searching intellectual Kamal. Al-Sayyid Ahmad’s rebellious children struggle to move beyond his domination in Palace of Desire, as the world around them opens to the currents of modernity and political and domestic turmoil brought by the 1920s. Sugar Street brings Mahfouz’s vivid tapestry of an evolving Egypt to a dramatic climax as the aging patriarch sees one grandson become a Communist, one a Muslim fundamentalist, and one the lover of a powerful politician. (Amazon Synopsis)"

Check in on February 1st to see the rest of my to be read pile for Egypt!