Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood (Record no. 92340)

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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9781473635302
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number NOA
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Personal name Trevor Noah
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Title Born a Crime : Stories from a South African Childhood
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc UK
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Manipal Technologie Ltd.
Date of publication, distribution, etc 2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 282 Pages
Other physical details Paper Back
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc 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.<br/><br/>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.<br/><br/>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 mother’s unconventional, unconditional love.
Keyword Biographies & Memoirs
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Source of heading or term Quality Educations
Topical term or geographic name as entry element No Poverty
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Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Genre/form data or focus term Biographies & Memoirs
Genre Biographies & Memoirs
Genre/form data or focus term apartheid
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    Dewey Decimal Classification     Fiction Senior Library Senior Library Biographies & Memoirs 2024-02-17 Amazone 325.00 4 NOA SS24010071 2025-10-04 2025-08-01 1 2024-02-17 Books Biographies & Memoirs - Section
          Fiction Senior Library Senior Library Biographies & Memoirs 2025-08-05 One Up 399.00     FS25052276 2025-10-04     2025-08-05 Books Biographies / Memoirs
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