Dream Count

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie returns with Dream Count, a work concerned with memory, grief and the private business of wanting a different life. Adichie's writing has always paid close attention to interior lives, and Dream Count continues that habit, moving between reflection and story with the clarity and restraint her readers know from her earlier books. The prose is unhurried, attentive to family, loss and the distance between the life imagined and the life actually lived, and it rewards slow reading more than quick consumption. Harper Collins publishes it under the 4th Estate imprint. Points that stand out: • New writing from the author of Half of a Yellow Sun • Concerned with memory, mourning and imagined futures • Careful, unhurried prose that repays a second reading • Suited to readers who follow contemporary literary fiction Recommended for book clubs and readers of African literary fiction, stocked at Boipoka.