In autumn 2007, when Cameroon's immigrant Gende Jung-ga who lived in Harlem was the Lehman Brothers senior manager Clark Edwards' driver, he could hardly believe his luck. Clark sought punctuality, attention and loyalty - Gendo is pleased with pleasure. Clark's wife Cindy offered even to Xander's wife Nini for temporary work at Hampton's summer home. With these opportunities, Jende and Neni can finally gain foothold in the United States and imagine a brighter future.
However, the world with enormous power and privilege obscures the nasty secret, and soon Jende and Neni realize that the appearance of the employer is cracked.
Then the financial world was shocked by the collapse of Lehman Brothers. In order to prevent Jende's work from becoming increasingly fragile, Jongas tries to protect Edwardses from certain facts, even if his marriage collapses. Jende and Neni were forced to make an impossible choice, as the lives of all four people were completely reversed.
"Very easy to read, deeply sympathize, and often humorous, the dreamer will provide the harsh reality of America's dreams because we rarely see it in the novel, wealth will win or lose , America's flawed dreamer and his struggling dreamer are conflictingly active, seeing a dreamer with straight prose and unforgettable characters is a destructive pleasure. " - Yang Ryan, author of Shawna Green Island, says, "Where is this Imbolo Mbue hiding? Her writings are very beautiful, considerate, timely and timeless. From her family to the great recession, all immigrants I truly believe what the "American dream" means. - Jacqueline Woodson, author who won the National Book Award, Brown Girl Dream, and another Brooklyn
A typical example is the 2013 Kane Award winner Tope Folarin's article "Anti Accessibility: Robert Owen, Chinua Achebe, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, and Imbolo Mbue Behold the Dreamers This article was published in the Los Angeles Book Review Folarin got the opportunity to introduce "accessibility" of African and black sentences to European and North American white audience when reading Behold the Dreamers. Social support does not harm the taste of Caucasian readers
Watching a dreamer is an unusual debut. Mbue is a great writer and the conversation is wonderful - fake notes, story shortcuts, and surely happy endings. This is a novel that depicts a country that is fortunate and aiming for the top of the world, but there is always the danger of breaking the balance. In other words, it is a typical American.
"It quickly became an ode to New York's Carroll and America's dream, a dreamer seems to be a movie, between the Harlem of the driver of Cameroon and the Upper East Side of the investment banks ... for a wonderful debut hero Yes, but only the person who paid close attention is a classic story unexpected - "- Gaya has to go to the author Taiye Selassie" Mbue's amazing premiere talks about immigrants, 2007 It is not about the story of financial collapse, New York rich and poor people - just a mere American dream fails someone and whether they can survive - novel "- J. Ryan Stradal, Midwest A great chef writer