Born a Crime
Subtitle: Stories from a South African Childhood
Edition: First Edition
Publisher: Spiegel & Grau
Published: 2016
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780399588174
Copyright date: 2016
Description: 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.
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