Faking Is Exhausting — Constantino Fiança’s New Book

“Use this book as a mirror. As confrontation. As a space where you can let your guard down—even if just for a paragraph.”

While the world drowns in step-by-step guides to happiness and polished mantras of success, Constantino Fiança shows up with something radical: truth without anesthesia.

Today, July 10, the 22-year-old Angolan best-selling author, programmer, investor, and entrepreneur releases his latest book, Faking Is Exhausting — now available on Rakuten Kobo. And it’s not the book you’re expecting.

This Isn’t Self-Help. It’s Self-Truth.

From the very first paragraph, Fiança makes it clear: “This is not a book to be read in a hurry. Not a book to be understood. And even less, a book to walk away from feeling ‘better.’”

There are no tidy chapters. No central message. No success story or hero’s journey. What you’ll find instead are fragments, aphorisms, and bleeding truths. A philosophical and emotional excavation of what happens when we perform stability while crumbling inside.

The Exhaustion of Pretending

At its core, Faking Is Exhausting is a meditation on the silent collapse disguised as normal life.

Fiança draws from over 400 raw conversations with people who live between the pressure to appear fine and the reality of feeling broken. These aren’t just stories — they’re symptoms. Signs of a generation that feels deeply, but often fakes otherwise.

“I called it everyday nihilism. I called it existential anesthesia. I called it emotional performance. But none of the names are enough.”

This is not a clinical book. It’s not written from a distance. It’s written from the middle of the storm — and it doesn’t pretend to have answers.

Read With Your Body, Not Just Your Eyes

What makes this book so different is its rawness. Its willingness to admit that life, as we live it, often doesn’t make sense — and that our attempts to sanitize or spiritualize that confusion can be another form of denial.

Fiança writes not to impress, but to expose. He invites the reader not to “learn,” but to feel. And not just feel—but to stop running from what they feel.

Each page stands alone. Each reflection is a doorway. You can read them in any order. Skip some. Reread others. But don’t read on autopilot — the book won’t let you.

“If all goes well, you won’t come out stronger. But you’ll come out more real.”

A Global Voice from Angola

At just 22, Constantino Fiança is already becoming a generational voice — not just in Angola, but around the world. After the success of The Truth You Don’t Want To Face (which sold over 24,000 copies in its first month), he has built a reputation for emotional honesty and deep introspection.

Beyond writing, he’s a programmer, tech entrepreneur, and investor — with a growing influence in tech and literary spaces alike.

But it’s his willingness to write what most of us are afraid to say that makes his work hit so hard.

Where to Read It

Faking Is Exhausting is available now in digital format via Rakuten Kobo, readable on all devices.

Read Faking Is Exhausting on Kobo

Final Thoughts

This is not a book to inspire you — it’s a book to interrupt you. To slow you down. To ask why you keep pretending everything’s fine when you know it’s not.

Read it. Sit with it. Let it hurt.

And if you're ready—stop faking.