Son of Fate

by John Kiriamiti

This novel is by the author of the celebrated My Life in Crime and is his first.

To
Son of Fate, life is a grim, long and fruitless struggle for survival
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 grandmother,
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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About the author

John Kiriamiti

John Kiriamiti, a former crook-turned-novelist, wrote My Life in Crime
while doing time at Naivasha Maximum Security Prison where he was
‘cooling porridge’ for a series of bank robberies that rocked 1960s and
1970s Kenya. Kiriamiti is best known as the writer of My Life in Crime
and My Life with a Criminal: Milly’s Story, which were both a sensation
with Kenyan youth in the late 1980s and ’90s.