• DREAM COUNT, a novel

DREAM COUNT, a novel

: Adichie (C.)

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399pp., paperback, 4th Estate, London, 2025

ISBN: 9780008685744

 

Also published in the USA in 2025.

The linked stories of four women: Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer living in America, Zikora, her best friend and a successful lawyer, Omelogor, Chiamaka's cousin, and powerful businesswoman in Nigeria, and Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, raising her daughter in America.

“Dream Count features the interwoven stories of four women, written in Adichie’s vivid, bracing, highly entertaining style. Like Americanah, it is set in the US and Nigeria, and covers the immigrant experience, the sometimes tense dialogue between Africans and African Americans, the Americanisation of language and thought; as well as mother-daughter relationships, friendship, the pressure on women to marry and have children, and – aptly – late motherhood.” Charlotte Edwardes, The Guardian

“This is a complex, multi-layered beauty of a book. It is deeply and richly feminist ... It explores big themes – misogyny, masculinity, race, colonialism, cultural relativism, the abuse of power, both personal and institutional – but it does so subtly, almost imperceptibly. The book’s lessons on life and the world we inhabit are not thrust didactically at the reader but considered through the profoundly human experiences of her characters ... Dream Count is an extraordinary novel.” Nicola Sturgeon, New Statesman

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie grew up in Nigeria. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus (Commonwealth Writers’ Prize); Half of a Yellow Sun (Women’s Prize for Fiction “Best of the Best” award); Americanah (National Book Critics Circle Award); the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck and the essays We Should All Be Feminists and Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions. Her most recent work is an essay about losing her father, Notes on Grief, and Mama’s Sleeping Scarf, a children’s book written as Nwa Grace-James. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.