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,

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.

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

"Dream Count", Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first novel in over a decade, is "dreamy indeed", said Alexandra Jacobs in The New York Times. An "accumulation of scenes and sensations, cloud-like in their contour", it's set against the backdrop of the pandemic that distorted "time itself".

Dream Count,” Adichie’s first novel in more than a decade, rotates between the stories of four women with roots in Nigeria.

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.

Plus Colwill Brown’s “We Pretty Pieces of Flesh.”

By Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Knopf; 416 pages; $32. Fourth Estate; £20. C an you be a good polemicist and a good novelist? To judge by the accolades offered to Chima