Dream Count

　　最受矚目非裔女作家奇瑪曼達．恩格茲．阿迪契全新作品
　　入選各大媒體2025最期待書單之一
　　正面臨人生十路口的四個女人，被迫重新回頭審視自己的一切

　　Chiamaka是一位在美國旅居的奈及利亞籍作家，因2020年的新冠疫情，而在馬里蘭州郊區與世隔絕中。她定期用Zoom與奈及利亞的家人、歐洲和美國的朋友進行聯繫。同時，她選擇利用這段時間，回顧人生中的戀情，去面對那些自己曾做下的選擇和遺憾。Zikora，Chiamaka的閨蜜，一個在工作上鐵石心腸的律師，總是能夠直接將殘忍的事實對他人說出口，但卻容易陷入有問題的戀情中，甚至碰到了一個在她懷孕時拋下她的男人。當Zikora被迫獨自面對孩子的撫養時，卻也獲得了意想不到的援手。Omelogor則是Chiamaka的表親，奈及利亞金融界呼風喚雨的人物，看似精明的她，卻開始質疑自己是否真的了解自己。最後是Chiamaka的管家Kadiatou，她憑一己之力、克服萬難，撫養著非常有天賦的女兒，卻無辜捲入一樁醜聞中，甚至有可能危及到現在眼前建立好的一切生活。

　　阿迪契用她銳利而溫暖的筆鋒，鋪敘出這四位女性的遭遇，讓讀者們不禁思考：究竟『幸福』，是可以被擁有的，抑或只是一場短暫的心理狀態？而每個人為了愛與被愛，必須對自己有多誠實？本書反映了那些身為母親、女兒，甚至是與周遭所有人互動間所做出的，不管是我們自己可能有的，或是他人為我們而做出抉擇下的情感糾結。文字間，流露出對人性精闢的觀察。(文／博客來外文館)

　　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, 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.