Category: eBooks
Author Trevor Noah
Publisher One World
Publication date November 15, 2016
Print size 264 pages
Customer Reviews 4.8 out of 5 stars / 41,308 rankings
Sold by Random House LLC
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Price $7.00 decrease (%70 financial savings) than the common value of $9.99
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than a million copies bought! A “good” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age in the course of the twilight of apartheid
“Noah’s childhood tales are advised with all of the hilarity and mind that characterizes his comedy, whereas illuminating a darkish and brutal interval in South Africa’s historical past that must not ever be forgotten.”—Esquire
Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named top-of-the-line books of the yr by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show started with a prison act: his start. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mom at a time when such a union was punishable by 5 years in jail. Living proof of his dad and mom’ indiscretion, Trevor was stored largely indoors for the earliest years of his life, sure by the intense and sometimes absurd measures his mom took to cover him from a authorities that might, at any second, steal him away. Finally liberated by the tip of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mom set forth on a grand journey, dwelling brazenly and freely and embracing the alternatives gained by a centuries-long battle.
Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous younger boy who grows right into a stressed younger man as he struggles to search out himself in a world the place he was by no means purported to exist. It can also be the story of that younger man’s relationship together with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently non secular mom—his teammate, a girl decided to save lots of her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that might in the end threaten her personal life.
The tales collected listed below are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner throughout onerous instances, being thrown from a transferring automotive throughout an tried kidnapping, or simply attempting to outlive the life-and-death pitfalls of relationship in highschool, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His tales weave collectively to type a transferring and searingly humorous portrait of a boy making his means by a broken world in a harmful time, armed solely with a eager humorousness and a mom’s unconventional, unconditional love.
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