A searing new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists
βThe major publication milestone of 2025β OBSERVERA publishing event ten years in the makingβa searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministsβthe story of four women and their loves, longings and desires.
A searing new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists
βThe major publication milestone of 2025β OBSERVERA publishing event ten years in the makingβa searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministsβthe story of four women and their loves, longings and desires.
βThe major publication milestone of 2025β OBSERVER
A publishing event ten years in the makingβa searing, exquisite new novel by the best-selling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feministsβthe story of four women and their loves, longings and desires.
'The return of a literary titan' TELEGRAPH
CHOSEN AS A SUNDAY TIMES, GUARDIAN, OBSERVER, FINANCIAL TIMES, INDEPENDENT, TELEGRAPH, GQ and COSMOPOLITAN BOOK OF 2025.
Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until β betrayed and brokenhearted β she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamakaβs bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamakaβs housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America β but faces an unthinkable hardship that threatens all she has worked to achieve.
In Dream Count, Adichie trains her fierce eye on these women in a sparkling, transcendent novel that takes up the very nature of love itself. Is true happiness ever attainable or is it just a fleeting state? And how honest must we be with ourselves in order to love, and to be loved? A trenchant reflection on the choices we make and those made for us, on daughters and mothers, on our interconnected world, Dream Count pulses with emotional urgency and poignant, unflinching observations on the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichieβs status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.
βExpect everyone to be talking about this oneβ INDEPENDENT
βAdichie electrifies her depictions of each character with stinging details and lacerating social critiques to striking, hilarious and heartbreaking effect. Every aspect of this transfixing, intimate and astute group portrait is ablaze with scorching insights into the maddening absurdities and injustices that continue to plague womenβs lives. Adichieβs magnificently vital, sharply forthright novel will be one of the yearβs most sought after and resounding titlesβ Starred Booklist review
βLove, death, motherhood β itβs all here, and few can handle it as capably as Adichieβ GQ
'Luxuriously layered. Itβs the return of a literary titan' Telegraph
βThe major publication milestone of 2025β Observer
βExpect everyone to be talking about this oneβ Independent
βAs finely constructed and evocatively realised as the rest of Adichieβs memorable workβ Harperβs Bazaar
βAdichie's writing is always exciting and relevant, with her latest novel about to cement her place as a literary greatβ Radio Times
βThe book we've all been waiting for. Expect the emotional poignancy and astute observations that makes Adichie such a powerful writer. Ten years in the making and worth every minute of waiting!β Elle
Praise for Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie:
βAdichie uses language with relish. She infuses her English with a robust poetryβ The Times
'A writer endowed with the gift of ancient storytellersβ Chinua Achebe
β[Adichie is] the rare novelist to become a public intellectual β as well as a defining voice on race and gender for the digital ageβ New York Times Magazine
βAdichie entwines love and politics to a degree rarely achieved by novelists. That is what great fiction does β it simultaneously devours and ennobles, and in its freely acknowledged invention comes to be truer than the facts upon which it is builtβElle
βAdichie creates indelible characters who jump off the page and into your head and heartβ USA Today
CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE grew up in Nigeria. Her work has been translated into more than 55 languages and has appeared in various publications, including The New Yorker, The New York Times, Granta, The O. Henry Prize Stories, and Financial Times. She is the author of the novels Purple Hibiscus, which won the Commonwealth Writers Prize and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award; Half of a Yellow Sun, which was the recipient of the Womenβs Prize for Fiction βWinner of Winnersβ award; Americanah, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck; the essays We Should All Be Feminists, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions, and Notes on Grief; and Mamaβs Sleeping Scarf, a book for children. A recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, she divides her time between the United States and Nigeria.
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