My life in prison / John Kiriamiti

Public ISBD Titre : My life in prison Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Kiriamiti, Auteur Editeur : Nairobi [Kenya] : East African Educational Publishers Année de publication : 2004 Collection : Spear books num. 45 Importance : vi, 224 p. Présentation : couv. ill. en coul. Format : 21 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-9966-25-342-2 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Écrivains kenyans ; Prisons -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Index. décimale : F Fiction Résumé : When John Kiriamiti was convicted on a charge of robbery with violence and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with 48 strokes of the cane, he was dejected and distraught. There was no way he could spend 20 good years behind those grim walls of prison, he told himself. And he straightaway embarked on a mission to escape the throes of prison. Written from the point of view of the first person narrator, My life in prison is a rendition of the travails and tribulations that Kiriamiti experienced behind bars. Like in his first novel, My Life inn Crime, Kiriamiti gives us yet another autobiogaphical account of his dramatic life as a criminal, an account that is as brutally frank as it is graphic in detail. My life in prison [texte imprimé] / John Kiriamiti, Auteur . - Nairobi [Kenya] : East African Educational Publishers, 2004 . - vi, 224 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 21 cm. - (Spear books; 45) . ISBN : 978-9966-25-342-2 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Écrivains kenyans ; Prisons -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. Index. décimale : F Fiction Résumé : When John Kiriamiti was convicted on a charge of robbery with violence and sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with 48 strokes of the cane, he was dejected and distraught. There was no way he could spend 20 good years behind those grim walls of prison, he told himself. And he straightaway embarked on a mission to escape the throes of prison. Written from the point of view of the first person narrator, My life in prison is a rendition of the travails and tribulations that Kiriamiti experienced behind bars. Like in his first novel, My Life inn Crime, Kiriamiti gives us yet another autobiogaphical account of his dramatic life as a criminal, an account that is as brutally frank as it is graphic in detail.

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Son of fate / John Kiriamiti

Public ISBD Titre : Son of fate Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : John Kiriamiti, Auteur Editeur : Nairobi [Kenya] : Spear Books Année de publication : 1994 Collection : Spear books series num. 16 Importance : xi, 245 p. Présentation : couv. ill. en coul. Format : 18 cm ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 9966-464-39-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Kenya -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Écrivains kenyans Index. décimale : F Fiction Résumé : To Son of Fate, life is a grim, long and fruitless struggle for aurvival after he is released from Kamiti Maximum Prison. He tries his hand at farming, tilling a small piece of land left to him by his geandmother, but rural life proves unappealing to him. Son of Fate, therefore, decides to try his luck in the city. Here he ends up sleeping on the pavements--otherwise known as "missing line"--when money runs out. Then he starts doing odd jobs: being a watchman, shoe shining, selling fruits and second-hand clothes. But everything fails and he constantly finds himself on the wrong side of the law becoming a hunted man once again. This is until the day he rescues a tycoon from the mouth of a python--then comes a glimmer of hope. Son of fate [texte imprimé] / John Kiriamiti, Auteur . - Nairobi [Kenya] : Spear Books, 1994 . - xi, 245 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 18 cm. - (Spear books series; 16) . ISBN : 9966-464-39-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Kenya -- Romans, nouvelles, etc. ; Littérature africaine en anglais ; Littérature africaine en anglais -- Écrivains kenyans Index. décimale : F Fiction Résumé : To Son of Fate, life is a grim, long and fruitless struggle for aurvival after he is released from Kamiti Maximum Prison. He tries his hand at farming, tilling a small piece of land left to him by his geandmother, but rural life proves unappealing to him. Son of Fate, therefore, decides to try his luck in the city. Here he ends up sleeping on the pavements--otherwise known as "missing line"--when money runs out. Then he starts doing odd jobs: being a watchman, shoe shining, selling fruits and second-hand clothes. But everything fails and he constantly finds himself on the wrong side of the law becoming a hunted man once again. This is until the day he rescues a tycoon from the mouth of a python--then comes a glimmer of hope.

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