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. 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. Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.OL17824318W Page_number_confidence 94.66 Pages 358 Pdf_module_version 0.0.15 Ppi 360 Rcs_key 24143 Republisher_date 20210917090632 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 352 Scandate 20210916175305 Scanner Scanningcenter cebu Scribe3_search_catalog isbn Scribe3_search_id 9781770105065 Source O元5084994M Openlibrary_subject openlibrary_staff_picks Openlibrary_work Run - Born a crime - Trevor, pray - Chameleon - The second girl - Loopholes - Fufi - Robert - The mulberry tree - A young man's long, awkward, occasionally tragic, and frequently humiliating education in affairs of the heart, part I: Valentine's Day - Outsider - A young man's long, awkward, occasionally tragic, and frequently humiliating education in affairs of the heart, part II: the crush - Colorblind - A young man's long, awkward, occasionally tragic, and frequently humiliating education in affairs of the heart, part III: the dance - Go Hitler! - The cheese boys - The world doesn't love you - My mother's lifeĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 14:23:02 Bookplateleaf 0008 Boxid IA40236721 Camera USB PTP Class Camera Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier With an incisive wit and unflinching honesty, Noah weaves together a moving yet funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time As he struggles to find himself in a world where he was never supposed to exist, his mother is determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence, and abuse that would ultimately threaten her own life. Born to a white Swiss father and a black Xhosa mother, at the time such a union was punishable by five years in prison. Noah's path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth.
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