Description

Following the death of his father Robert Uleo, alias ‘Shamra Shamra’ has to leave school to fend for the family. He becomes a fisherman, is caught in a tempest, ends up stranded on an isolated island inhabited by monsters. He manages to escape and returns home after a stay in Uganda. This is just one of his adventures in this gripping novel about Uleo who refused to lie down and die despite all fates tricks on him.

"This is one of the manuscripts which won a prize in the Burt Award Competition, which was organized by the CBP in 2009… The scenes are extremely exciting and even blood-curdling… The language of this manuscript is fluent and even idiomatic…"

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