The Eternal Audience of One

"The Eternal Audience of One" is a coming-of-age tale that follows a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda and make sense of his reality. It is a lyrical and piquant tale of family, migration, friendship, war, identity, and race that will sweep you off your feet.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 400 pages
Publication date: 04 August 2022
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Séraphin, a Rwandan living in Namibia, is a playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, and self-appointed merchant of cool. He is stifled and living in Namibia, but soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town. There, he will find loyal friends, hormone-saturated parties, adventurous conquests, and race controversies. His long-awaited final year in law school promises to deliver a crucial puzzle piece of the Great Plan immigrant: a degree from a prestigious university.

However, a year is more than the sum of its parts, and Séraphin must live through and even survive the past in this “hilarious and heartbreaking” intersection of pre- and post-1994 Rwanda, colonial and post-independence Windhoek, Paris and Brussels in the 70s, Nairobi public schools, and the racially charged streets of Cape Town.

The Eternal Audience of One is a lyrical and piquant tale of family, migration, friendship, war, identity, and race that will sweep you off your feet. It is visually striking and beautiful, told with youthful energy and hard-won wisdom. Rabeah Ghaffari, author of To Keep the Sun Alive, praised it as “visually striking and beautiful told with youthful energy and hard-won wisdom.”

Weight: 350g
Dimension: 135 x 209 x 36 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781982164430