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BORN A CRIME : AND OTHER STORIES / TREVOR NOAH

By: Publisher: London : John Murray, 2017Copyright date: ©2016Description: x, 288 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781473635302
Other title:
  • Born a crime : stories from a South African childhood
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 23 791.45028092
Summary: Noah was born a crime, son of 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 first 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, take him away. A collection of eighteen personal stories, "Born a crime" tells the story of a mischievous young boy growing into a restless young man as he struggles to find his place in a world where he was never supposed to exist. "Born a crime" is equally the story of that young man's fearless, rebellious and fervently religious mother - a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence and abuse that ultimately threatens her own life.
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Originally published: London : John Murray, 2016.

Noah was born a crime, son of 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 first 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, take him away. A collection of eighteen personal stories, "Born a crime" tells the story of a mischievous young boy growing into a restless young man as he struggles to find his place in a world where he was never supposed to exist. "Born a crime" is equally the story of that young man's fearless, rebellious and fervently religious mother - a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence and abuse that ultimately threatens her own life.

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