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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

by Trevor Noah
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About this book

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. --penguinrandomhouse.com

Book Details

ISBN13 9780399588174
ISBN10 0399588175
Series/Work OL17824318W View on OpenLibrary
Publisher Spiegel & Grau
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

apartheid Biographies Biography BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs Childhood and youth Comedians Comedians, biography Comedy Comiques Essays History HUMOR HUMOR / Essays HUMOR / Form / Essays HUMOR / Topic / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional Métis Mothers and sons New York Times bestseller nyt:combined-print-and-e-book-nonfiction=2016-12-04

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