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. 1 title per month from Audible’s entire catalog of best sellers, and new releases. Listen to Born A Crime Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah available from Rakuten Kobo. Small town lawyer, Cass Leary takes the case that could rip her family apart. Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. The childs birth mother is charged with the crime. 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. The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. 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. 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.īorn 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. 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. Retweet our AudioAdvent posts from 15th-21st December on Twitter HodderPod and tell us your favourite audiobook narrator for the chance to win an audiobook CD of JUST AFTER SUNSET by Stephen King. 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. HodderPod is counting down to Christmas with an audiobook advent calendar December 17th: Trevor Noah narrates Born A Crime. Trevor Noah's unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth.
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
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