Trevor Noah
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| Title | : | Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood |
| Author | : | Trevor Noah |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 285 pages |
| Published | : | November 15th 2016 by Doubleday Canada |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. Biography. Audiobook |
Description In Pursuance Of Books Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime New York Times bestseller about one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Trevor was born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother at a time when such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Living proof of his parents’ indiscretion, Trevor was kept mostly indoors for the earliest years of his life, bound by the extreme and often absurd measures his mother took to hide him from a government that could, at any moment, steal him away. Finally liberated by the end of South Africa’s tyrannical white rule, Trevor and his mother set forth on a grand adventure, living openly and freely and embracing the opportunities won by a centuries-long struggle. Born a Crime is the story of a mischievous young boy who grows into a restless young man as he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist. It is also the story of that young man’s relationship with his fearless, rebellious, and fervently religious mother—his teammate, a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. The eighteen personal essays collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love. Source: penguinrandomhouse.caBe Specific About Books Supposing Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
| Original Title: | Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood |
| ISBN: | 0385689225 (ISBN13: 9780385689229) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Setting: | Johannesburg(South Africa) |
| Literary Awards: | Evergreen Teen Book Award Nominee (2019), Lincoln Award Nominee (2019), NAACP Image Award for Debut Author and for Biography / Auto-biography (2017), Thurber Prize for American Humor (2017) |
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Ratings: 4.46 From 297807 Users | 29782 ReviewsCommentary Appertaining To Books Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood
I was lucky to see Trevor Noah speak about this book recently, and the way he talked about his story, and his life growing up in South Africa made me all the more eager to read it! The book is a cohesive collection of stories from his childhood and early adulthood, and though I am not typically a reader of much non-fiction, I found this book truly compelling and hard to put down!Noah has a way of really drawing you in, and making you feel as though you are there with him, experiencing hisOverall, Born a Crime is a fascinating story, but the loose editing and too casual a writing style meant it lacked narrative cohesion for me, so it's a solid 3 star review. Trevor Noah's childhood memoir definitely showcases his fresh, witty perspective and provide a lot of history and context of life under apartheid and life just after the end of apartheid, from a macro level of the forces and powers at work and warring against each other, to the micro level of Trevor and his family's
Born a Crime Funny guy- The very charming Trevor Noah********************************************* "People love to say, Give a man a fish, and hell eat for a day. Teach a man to fish, and hell eat for a lifetime. What they dont say is, And it would be nice if you gave him a fishing rod. Thats the part of the analogy thats missing." Trevor Noah*********************************************By the time Trevor Noah was born in 1984, Apartheid, the system that institutionalized segregation and racial
4.5/5Trevor Noah was a great narrator and had the ability to turn the grimmest of experiences into smart, exciting stories. If this book interests you, I urge you to listen to the audiobook!It was fascinating learning about his life growing up as a mixed race child in pre- and post-Apartheid South Africa. Though I learned vague facts about Apartheid in high school history classes, this was the best lesson I've had on the subject.The book skips around non-chronologically, which confused me at
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah is a 2016 Spiegel & Grau publication. Ive been a fan of Trevor Noah since he started hosting The Daily Show, but after reading this book, Im an even bigger fan. I admit I know virtually nothing about South Africa other than the absolute obvious, like what is reported in the news. So, Trevor gives readers like myself a bit of a history and a maybe a civics lesson too, in how people are divided by class and race and the
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