03228cam a2200385 i 4500 5972 FISKH 20250225094512.0 160809s2016 nyu 000 0aeng 2016031399 9780399588174 (hardcover) 9780399590443 (international) 9780399588181 (ebook) 9781473635302 $21.50 DLC eng rda DLC DLC PN2287.N557 791.4502 Noah, Trevor, 1984- author. Born a crime : Stories from a South African childhood / Trevor Noah. First published in paperback in 2017 London : John Murray, 2016 282 pages : 20 cm text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier The million-selling must-read memoir. "Powerful and unique the time". Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year 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 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 stories 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 mothers unconventional, unconditional love. Noah, Trevor, 1984- Comedians United States Biography. Comedians South Africa Biography. Television personalities United States Biography. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 0 5972 5972 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 001 001 ATKSNF 2025-02-14 0 NOA 791.4502 PN2287.N557 2025-0578 2025-02-14 11:51:11 1 2025-02-14 BK 0 0 ddc 0 0 NFIC 002 002 SNS 2025-02-14 2 NOA 791.4502 PN2287.N557 2025-0579 2025-11-27 15:17:00 2025-08-20 2 2025-02-14 BK