En cours de chargement...
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. 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. 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.
Born a Crime
Trevor Noah gives us in his memoir a funny yet poignant and heartbreaking account of his grownup a crime. He invite us into his early life in South Africa until his début as the well known comedian that he is today in the US. However, his book is also a powerful ode to his mother, grandmother those women you were his pillar and gave him the strenght to pursuit his dreams.