Dream Count
2025
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Rosie Carpenter a noté 8/10
I enjoyed this book but I’m also a little torn about it. <br /><br />On the one hand, it is a masterpiece of Adichie’s ability to write such realistic female characters that they feel autobiographical. And it was especially interesting to see the different ways these women viewed each other as well as themselves. But on the other hand their stories felt like a litany of men behaving badly, which I don’t dispute as a reality faced by women, but it got a little wearing. <br /><br />On the one hand, I greatly admire Adichie’s bravery in tackling issues that others would not dare touch, but on the other hand I was troubled by fictionalising a deeply personal real event without having spoken to the person who inspired it.
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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 A Most Anticipated Book of 2025 from The Washington Post, Harper’s Bazaar, Marie Claire, Elle, Oprah Daily, Readers Digest, The Seattle Times, LitHub, The Chicago Review of Books, BET, and Radio Times 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, 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 of 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.
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2 avisI enjoyed this book but I’m also a little torn about it. <br /><br />On the one hand, it is a masterpiece of Adichie’s ability to write such realistic female characters that they feel autobiographical. And it was especially interesting to see the different ways these women viewed each other as well as themselves. But on the other hand their stories felt like a litany of men behaving badly, which I don’t dispute as a reality faced by women, but it got a little wearing. <br /><br />On the one hand, I greatly admire Adichie’s bravery in tackling issues that others would not dare touch, but on the other hand I was troubled by fictionalising a deeply personal real event without having spoken to the person who inspired it.
L'histoire de Kadiatou est celle qui m'a le plus émue, bien écrit.
