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Like Americanah, Dream Count is a big, loose, spacious, digressive, ingenuous book. It takes its characters and their feelings seriously. It has the classic realist hunger to get in as much of the ...

In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, presents "Dream Count" (Knopf), an intricately woven novel that spans continents and classes.

It’s strange that a book about disenchantment should end by serving up a fantasy. Dream Count is published by Fourth Estate at £20. To order your copy for £16.99, call 0330 173 0523 or visit ...

The children of Gaza, with tears in their eyes, dream of a night without explosions, of a home that is not reduced to rubble, of a school where books are the only thing they have to carry.

At its face, “Dream Count” is about the emotional lives of four women living between Nigeria and Washington, D.C., each grappling with a search for purpose, stability and love. Deep into its pages, ...

Laila Lalami is the author of “The Dream Hotel.” Photo: Beowulf Sheehan Laila Lalami’s disquieting new book “The Dream Hotel” takes place in Southern California in the year 2039. It’s just far enough ...

In her first novel since “Americanah,” she draws on a real-life assault case as she follows the lives of three Nigerian women and one of their former housekeepers ...

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” begins in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdowns, which means that this expansive novel of friendship is tinged from the start by an air of melancholy.

With a title as pun-perfect as “I Dream of Joni,” you almost can’t blame Alford, the puckish longtime New Yorker writer and humorist, for writing an entire book to justify it. The subtitle ...

Adichie’s new novel, “Dream Count,” is about the dream lives of four West African women living in Maryland, Washington DC, and Abuja, Nigeria: Chiamaka; her hair-braider and housekeeper ...

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