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The Eternal Audience of One

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The Eternal Audience of One

“Meet the future of African literature” (Mukoma Wa Ngugi, author of NAIROBI HEAT) with this “gorgeous, wildly funny, and, above all, profoundly moving and humane” (Peter Orner, author of AM I ALONE HERE) coming-of-age tale following a young man who is forced to flee his homeland of Rwanda and make sense of his reality.

Nobody ever makes it to the start of a story, not even the people in it. The most one can do is make some sort of start and then work toward some kind of ending.

One might as well start with Séraphin: playlist-maker, nerd-jock hybrid, self-appointed merchant of cool, Rwandan, stifled and living in Windhoek, Namibia. Soon he will leave the confines of his family life for the cosmopolitan city of Cape Town, in South Africa, where loyal friends, hormone-saturated parties, adventurous conquests and race controversies await. More than that, 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.

But a year is more than the sum of its parts, and en route to the future, the present must be lived through and even the past must be survived.

“Visually striking and beautiful told with youthful energy and hard-won wisdom” (Rabeah Ghaffari, author of TO KEEP THE SUN ALIVE), 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.

The Eternal Audience of One
by Rémy Ngamije

  • Publication Date: June 14, 2022
  • Genres: Fiction
  • Paperback: 400 pages
  • Publisher: Gallery/Scout Press
  • ISBN-10: 1982164433
  • ISBN-13: 9781982164430