Bibliograph

Born a crime, stories from a South African childhood, Trevor Noah

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Label

Born a crime, stories from a South African childhood, Trevor Noah

Language

eng

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Born a crime

Oclc number

945946648

Responsibility statement

Trevor Noah

Sub title

stories from a South African childhood

Summary

Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. With an incisive wit and unflinching honesty, Noah weaves together a moving yet funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time. -- Adapted from publisher

Table Of Contents

I. Run - Born a crime - Trevor, pray - Chameleon - The second girl - Loopholes - Fufi - Robert -- II. The mulberry tree - A young man's long, awkward, occasionally tragic, and frequently humiliating education in affairs of the heart, part I: Valentine's Day - Outsider - A young man's long, awkward, occasionally tragic, and frequently humiliating education in affairs of the heart, part II: the crush - Colorblind - A young man's long, awkward, occasionally tragic, and frequently humiliating education in affairs of the heart, part III: the dance -- III. Go Hitler! - The cheese boys - The world doesn't love you - My mother's life -- Acknowledgments

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