FINALIST FOR THE 2025 ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL FICTION • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • GLOBE AND MAIL BESTSELLER • LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER • A Heather's Pick

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“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

“Dream Count feels like a homecoming. The Nigerian author’s first work of longform fiction in over a decade reminds us of the sharp wisdom and sturdy empathy that have made her one of the most celebrated voices in fiction . . . . Dream Count succeeds because every page is suffused with empathy, and because Adichie’s voice is as forthright and clarifying as ever. Reading about each woman, we begin to forget that we’re separate from these characters or that their lives belong to fiction.” —Helen Wieffering, Associated Press

"At its heart, her new book is a quiet powerhouse. It is Adichie, doing what she does best: capturing the inner weather of her characters with prose so elegant it almost glides past you until it punches you in the gut. . . . It’s not loud, not even plot-driven in the traditional sense yet by the end you realise something profound has shifted within the characters, and maybe within yourself as well." —The Hindustan Times

“As ever, it is Adichie’s outsider viewpoint that draws you in, whether she is making (often barbed) observations about queueing for loo roll in lockdown, relationship dynamics or political and racial divides in the US. Adichie can cram those details, with the deftest touch, into the same paragraph. And these women’s overarching stories — laced with longing and delayed dreams — provides real heart alongside the humour. What a pleasure to have both.” —Esquire