Dream Count

"לתרגם לעברית, וכמה שיותר מהר!" כתבה הסופרת עופרה עופר אורן לאחר קריאת ספרה החדש (2025) של הסופרת הניגרית הפמיניסטית צ'יממנדה נגוזי אדיצ'יה, מהיוצרות האהובות אצלנו במגדלור. אנחנו מצטרפות לבקשה, ובינתיים הנה Dream Count באנגלית, סיפורן של ארבע נשים על אהבותיהן, געגועיהן ותשוקותיהן, עליו נכתב בסאנדי טיימס שהוא "נקרא כמו מלחמה ושלום – הגרסה הפמיניסטית".

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.

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, Chimamanda Ngozi 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 Adichie’s status as one of the most exciting and dynamic writers on the literary landscape.