The new novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, author of Americanah and Todos deberíamos ser feministas.
In the solitude of the pandemic, Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer living in the United States, reflects on her former lovers as she faces her decisions, doubts, and regrets. Around her orbit three other women whose lives intersect and illuminate each other. Zikora, her best friend, is a brilliant lawyer used to having everything under control, until a betrayal forces her to seek support where she least expected it. Omelogor, Chiamaka’s bold and straightforward cousin, influential in Nigeria, begins to question how well she truly knows herself. And Kadiatou, Chiamaka’s housekeeper, proudly raises her daughter in the United States but must face an unforeseen blow that threatens everything she has built.
In Unos cuantos sueños, Adichie keenly and powerfully observes the intimate and social cracks that mark these women’s experiences. Can authentic happiness be achieved, or is it always a fleeting glimpse? What level of honesty does love demand, toward others and oneself? With an incisive look at the decisions we make and those others make for us, about mothers and daughters, and about an interconnected world where nothing happens in isolation, the novel pulses with emotional urgency and prose as beautiful as it is strong. A return that reaffirms Adichie as one of the most vibrant and moving voices in today’s literary scene.
Critics have said:
«Unos cuantos sueños reads like a feminist War and Peace. It is a story about the war waged against women, a force that arises from society but also through the body itself. Full of truth, wit, and compassion, it is a magnificent novel that conveys the complexity of human motivation and dares to ask difficult questions. A work that generates frustration with the world but satisfaction with the quality of contemporary fiction.»
The Times
