Títol: Born a crime
Registre: 1011
Autor: Noah, Trevor
Editorial: Hodder & Stoughton
Idioma: Anglès
Snopsis:
One of the comedy world's brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a
light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and
identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience
acquired in his relatively young life. As host of the US hit show The Daily
Show with Trevor Noah, he provides viewers around the globe with their nightly
dose of biting satire, but here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a
deeply personal, heartfelt and humorous look at the world that shaped him.
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.
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, Noah illuminates
his curious world with an incisive wit and an unflinching honesty. His stories
weave together to form a personal portrait of an unlikely childhood in a
dangerous time, as moving and unforgettable as the very best memoirs and as
funny as Noah's own hilarious stand-up. Born a Crime is a must read.
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