A foreign book reviewer has broken silence on Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's latest book "Dream Count". She shared what the new book did to her brain.

In her long-awaited return to fiction, the author of "Americanah" presents her intricately-woven novel that explores love, ambition, family expectations, and the forces that shape women's choices.

When her father died, the author of “Americanah” produced a slim work of nonfiction. When her mother died, she poured her grief into a sprawling 416-page novel.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie talks about writing her fourth novel, Dream Count, how her mother's passing inspired her to write the book and turning to poetry for inspiration.

Nigerian American writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie published her third novel, “Americanah,” which cemented her reputation as an international literary star. Since then, she has published an epistolary book on feminism,

The biggest news in the book world of late, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie has released her first novel in 10 years: Dream Count.

In turns, the book shifts its focus to three other women and their dreams. There is Chia’s friend Zikora, an ambitious lawyer who is desperate to be a mother, and Chia’s brazen cousin Omelogor, a banker in Nigeria who has a crisis of confidence upon coming to America.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie feels contemporary culture is guilty of “shying away from the all-too human possibility of contradiction”. Her fourth novel, Dream Count, deals beautifully with the fallibility of perception.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” feels like a homecoming, writes Associated Press reviewer Helen Wieffering.