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Essential reading... Engaging, fast-paced and vivid, leavened with insight and wit . . . Born a Crime does more to expose apartheid - its legacy, its pettiness, its small-minded stupidity and its damage - than any other recent history book or academic text ― GUARDIAN
Powerful and unique ― THE TIMES
A brilliant memoir, bonding and hilarious... Fantastic ― LUPITA NYONG’O, TIME, Books of the Year
Witty and brilliant...You'd be hard-pressed to find a better origin story ― O ― THE OPRAH MAGAZINE
Trevor Noah's childhood stories are told with all the hilarity and intellect that characterizes his comedy, while illuminating a dark and brutal period in South Africa's history that must never be forgotten ― ESQUIRE
Compelling . . . By turns alarming, sad, and funny, Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to Trevor Noah's remarkable mother ― NEW YORK TIMES
A soul-nourishing pleasure...an enormous gift ― USA TODAY
A book to read now ― WALL STREET JOURNAL
A memoir with heft... Astonishingly fearless... this story soars ― PEOPLE
Mind-blowing ― COSMOPOLITAN
Trevor Noah has a real story to tell -- and tells it well... A little scary, but trust me -- it's funny ― NEWSDAY
An affecting memoir. . . and a love letter to his mother ― WASHINGTON POST
Extraordinary . . . essential reading on every level. It's hard to imagine a finer job ― SEATTLE TIMES
Noah proves a gifted storyteller, deftly lacing his poignant tales with amusing irony ― ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY
Incisive, funny, and vivid, Trevor Noah's electrifying memoir sparkles with staggering true tales . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class ― BOOKLIST
A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . and brilliant storytelling and acute observations ― KIRKUS
Humble, candid and funny ― ELLE (South Africa)
Thoughtful, observant and empathetic...warm and human ― MAIL & GUARDIAN (South Africa)
Treats what could be a dark topic with humour and light ― Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of MY SISTER THE SERIAL KILLER
An engaging, fast-paced and vivid read . . . Essential reading not only because it is a personal story of survival, leavened with insight and wit, but because it does more to expose apartheid - its legacy, its pettiness, its small-minded stupidity and its damage - than any other recent history book or academic text ― GUARDIAN
It's no surprise that Trevor Noah, the slyly suave successor to Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show, should write a smart book. But 'smart' doesn't begin to cover what he pulls off in Born a Crime . . . Noah's memoir is extraordinary . . . essential reading on every level. It's hard to imagine anyone else doing a finer job of it ― SEATTLE TIMES
Powerful... The story of his life is full of chase scenes in which he runs, hell for leather, from spankings, from the long arm of the law, and from the swinging fist of his stepfather... a unique perspective ― THE TIMES
A soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism . . . is an enormous gift ― USA TODAY
A BOOK TO READ NOW ― WALL STREET JOURNAL
A memoir with heft... The interracial coupling that produced him really was a crime, making him an outsider. But he thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. (At one point she tosses him from a moving car -- driven by gangsters -- to save his life.) However brutal South African history is, their fierce bond makes this story soar ― PEOPLE, Best New Books
Noah has a real story to tell -- and tells it well... A little scary, but trust me -- it's funny ― NEWSDAY
An affecting memoir. . . a love letter to his mother ― WASHINGTON POST
Mind-blowing as f*** ― COSMOPOLITAN
Incisive, funny, and vivid, these staggering true tales are anchored to Noah's portrait of his courageous, rebellious, and religious mother who defied racially restrictive laws to secure an education and a career for herself - and to have a child with a white Swiss/German even though sex between whites and blacks was illegal. . . . Trevor Noah's electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class ― BOOKLIST
Sharp, at times harrowing ... The Daily Show host Trevor Noah reveals his coming-of-age as the son of protective interracial parents in apartheid South Africa ― HARPER'S BAZAAR
Thoughtful, observant and empathetic...a warm and human story of the type we will need to survive the Trump presidency's imminent freezing of humane values ― MAIL & GUARDIAN (South Africa)
Compelling . . . By turns alarming, sad, and funny, his book provides a harrowing look through the prism of Noah's family, at life in South Africa under apartheid and the country's lurching entry into a post-apartheid era in the 1990s . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author's remarkable mother ― New York Times
Treats what could be a dark topic with humour and light. ― Oyinkan Braithwaite, author of My Sister the Serial Killer
Descripción del libro
Primaria Sexto Otra. Tipo de material: Libro del alumno. Dirigido a: Alumno. Autonomías desaconsejadas para su distribución: Born a crime.
Contraportada
One of the comedy world's fastest-rising stars ('SLICK, INTELLIGENT AND BLISSFULLY FUNNY' Time Out) tells his hilarious and moving coming-of-age story during the twilight of apartheid in South Africa and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.
Biografía del autor
Born under apartheid to a black South African mother and a white European father, Trevor Noah's improbable rise to stardom led to his sold-out one-man show at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe Festival that became one of the most talked-about shows at the festival that year. He has appeared on QI, 8 Out of 10 Cats, The Royal Variety Performance and Live at the Apollo. In 2015 Noah succeeded Jon Stewart as host of The Daily Show.
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