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Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's first three novels won prizes and critical acclaim. Two were optioned for movies, and one, Americanah, sold more than a million copies in the U.S. alone.
In her long awaited return to literary fiction, the author critiques the Anglophone publishing world and Western academia’s ...
"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 ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Dream Count” begins in the midst of the Covid-19 lockdowns, which means that this expansive novel of friendship is tinged from the start by an air of melancholy.
“What’s the point of writing fiction?” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie said. “The point is human connection. That’s what matters the most to me.”Credit...Schaun Champion for The New York ...
In “Dream Count,” Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie deals with immigration, justice and family, making for a thematically commanding story. However, its sporadic characters and disjointed structure ...
When Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie left Nigeria to attend college in Philadelphia, her American roommate was shocked to learn she could speak fluent English. And use a stove. Years later in a ...
Adichie’s fiction has always given pride of place to the experiences of Nigerian women. Some of her most memorable characters have included the teenage Kambili in Purple Hibiscus (2003), who is ...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie moves through a nondescript hotel in London. We’re speaking over video call, and in the small frame captured by her phone camera, she appears typically glamorous in blue ...
Fortunately, an unlikely source of support may be at hand. Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. (Rolf Vennenbernd/Pool Photo via AP) Readers expecting Adichie to devote her third part to ...