Dream Count

A Novel

De: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Narrado por: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Sandra Okuboyejo, A'rese Emokpae, Janina Edwards

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A publishing event ten years in the making—a searing, exquisite new novel by the bestselling and award-winning author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists—the story of four women and their loves, longings, and desires

A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, BET, and Radio Times

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—betrayed and brokenhearted—she must turn to the person she thought she needed least. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold, outspoken cousin, is a financial powerhouse in Nigeria who begins to question how well she knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, is proudly raising her daughter in America—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 of the human heart, in language that soars with beauty and power. It confirms Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.

©2025 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (P)2025 Random House Audio

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A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 at The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, BET, and Radio Times

“Innovative . . . . Adichie’s attention to hierarchies of language, the misuses of jargon, is one of her superpowers . . . . Dream Count, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s first novel in a dozen years, is dreamy indeed. An accumulation of scenes and sensations, cloudlike in their contour, floating this way and that against the backdrop of the pandemic that messed up sleep—and time itself—for us all.”—Alexandra Jacobs, The New York Times

“Expansive . . . . The lives depicted in Dream Count are linked without being integrated, like tapestries on the four walls of a room . . . . The four women are sympathetic allies, but they tend to be better at diagnosing each others’ problems than facing their own. That’s a very recognizable flaw, and Ms. Adichie treats it as humanely as the rest of this tender and wistful novel.”—Sam Sacks, The Wall Street Journal

“More than 10 years on from Americanah, this latest book is infused with something new and distinctive in Adichie’s prose: a crystal-clear purposefulness, moral and furious . . . . What elevates the story is, as ever, the emotional acuity of Adichie’s writing . . . . This latest book is infused with something new and distinctive in Adichie’s prose: a crystal-clear purposefulness, moral and furious . . . . In her ‘Author’s Note’, Adichie admits to seeking ‘to “write” a wrong in the balance of stories’, offering ‘clear-eyed realism, but touched by tenderness’. Realism, yes, but tenderness most of all.”—Shahidha Bari, Financial Times

The authenticity of the languages and accents.

I liked the relationships between the women and the in-depth discussions between them. Also the allusions to today’s world.

Such a beautiful book

I love this author- her writing is so beautiful it is almost poetic but also sometimes raw and direct. I did not want to reach the end of this story, I was so immersed in the lives of the characters. This book made me think about happiness, race, and class in new and deeper ways and had me looking back over my relationships and experiences with a different lens. I can’t wait for this author’s next book.

very enjoyable deeply rich story

I found out about this book from an interview the author did, it was a awesome choice to look it up and listen to it. I enjoyed listening to the story and was fully invested in all the characters.

Her control of words

Loved this beautiful written story and the courage in daring to dream. Thoroughly engaging and unwilling to put down once started.

Quotes

So many quotes to live by, all evoking different emotions. I loved all the stories and women.

Highly recommended

I finished the book in a day and a half. Couldn’t stop listening. I’m inspired by all 4 of the main characters.

Captivating, Beautifully Narrated

I have almost zero insight into the lives of African women and this story has been a boon.

Fabulous.

Story, voices, history and culture. In-depth exploration of Nigerian sisterhood and cross-cultural issues on many fronts.

Great narrative

Interesting story and the narration was enjoyable. This author does a great job telling the story of the four women.

Another Masterpiece ❤️

Such a beautiful telling of four powerful women’s story’s - sadness, survival and redemption in pandemic era America.