Dream Count
by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The lives of four interconnected women – their loves, their ambitions, their disappointments, their traumas – are scrutinised in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s dazzling fourth novel. Set across three continents and a sprawling cast of characters, Dream Count is a polyphonic work that engages with a range of charged themes, from the diaspora experience to sexual assault and the politics of female bodies. It is rigorously, bracingly contemporary – and yet it has a timelessness that characterises all great fiction.
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“Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Americanah, Half of a Yellow Sun) is publishing her first novel in more than a decade. Dream Count tells the story of four women: two Nigerian friends living in the United States, one of their cousins, and one of their housekeepers. Speaking to The Sunday Times, Adichie said: “The writing process was much more difficult than my previous novels because my life was very different. The devastation of losing both my parents in a short time hung like a shadow over the process. I’m a much slower writer now — fiction feels more hard worn and hard fought. And even more precious.”” Read more...
Cal Flyn, Five Books Editor
