“Dream Count” is a fantastic book about four women and Sisterhood
In 2013, Chimananda Ngozi conquered Adichie with her novelthe whole world. In “Americanah” she took the readers: inside her world, who deals between Nigeria and the USA, between hope, fear and the search for itself. You had to wait for the successor novel “Dream Count” for a whole twelve years - now, in March 2025, he has finally been released. You can read why you “Dream Count” should put on your reading list here.
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“Dream Count” takes us at a time that we would actually like to forget: The-Years. During these years, the four women of Chiamaka, Zikora, Omelogor and Kadiatou grow even closer together-and if it is only over zoom tiles. The, in which the four women are suddenly located, she reviews her life and grow beyond herself.
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"I always longed to recognize that I was recognized by another person," says "Dream Count". Chiamaka, one of the four protagonists, says him. Chiamaka is a travel author, she is born in Nigeria and lives in the United States - her life takes place between continents and cultures. What she painfully misses is one- with a man she wanted and who she wanted.
And so Chiamaka starts writing a list: about relationships, affairs, the real and the fantasized. But don't worry, Chiamaka does not cry after any past love affairs, but it takes inventory: Who was there in her life between two continents? And who had she actually dreamed of with? And howIs it currently?
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Chiamaka is not alone: her best friend Zikora, a successful lawyer, lives in nearby Washington DC. And as that one day, straight, but with (positive) pregnancy test sitting on the bathing tub edge, she too has to reorganize her life - and to whom one person who she had laboriously dealt with (Spoiler: It is not the).
Then there would be omelogor, Chiamaka's tough cousin in Nigeria, who as a banner does idealistic, but still dubious business to help women and at some point in the course of the novel asks who wants to be and how well she actually knows this person. And whether the not very clean shops in the bank are really everything she had expected and hoped for.
And finally, Kadiatou, Chiamaka's housekeeper, makes the quartet complete: she pulls her daughter big in the USA and is proud of it - but her happiness is like a house of cards that could collapse at any moment. Because Kadiatou becomes victim of one at her workplaceAnd then has to grow between evidence and procedure more than ever - for yourself and her daughter. (Without wanting to spoil: Read again what Dominique Strauss-Kahn did at the time and what that about thathas to do.)
"Wow, how well can you write?", You think more than once when you read "Dream Count". As in “Americanah”, Chimananda Ngozi Adichie tells of these four women, who are all strong and empoal, but still have to struggle. However, it is also clear in the moments when life throws clubs between their legs: none of them is ever alone, their Sisterhood is for eternity.
The book is tragic and funny, performs sexism and racism. Anyone who read that the American-Nigerian travel journalist Chiamaka can report on Congo or Sudan and the problems of the local people will be this form ofnever forget again.
“Dream Count” is a novel about love, about unconditional love that can be felt over the world's oceans and which brings you forward. It is a book that tells of women - mothers, friends, lovers, partners - in a modern world, the pace of which sometimes allows everyone from the way. But “Dream Count” also tells of the sense of community between women from different cultures, social classes and countries and, like this “Sisterhood”, this safety net, which makes every single woman's life better. And here “Dream Count” spans the bow into reality: Because this Sisterhood is - between all of us, and it makes our world a better one.
Chimananda Ngozi Adichie wrote a book with “Dream Count” (like at that time at “Americanah”) that cannot be put down. You want to know how these women live, laugh and what they choose in their lives. Do you all find your own happiness? Or is there this fairytale,everlastingHappiness not at all anyway and you jump together from phase to phase?
Adichie has established herself as an icon of literary pop feminism in the past twelve years, she was sitting at the table with Michelle Obama and modeled for fashion routes in women's magazines. This may not be well received by some feature slonists: their versatility and range have grown with it. And that is what it says: that Chimananda Ngozi Adichie's stories of women, freedom and love belong, read and be retelled and heard. “Dream Count” is the book that could have been unconsciously waited for: a friendship saga.
“Dream Count” by Chimananda Ngozi Adichie was published on March 4, 2025 at S. Fischer.
