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“[A] compelling new memoir By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah’s] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid 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. The genius of apartheid was convincing people who were the overwhelming majority to turn on each other. Apart hate, is what it was. You separate people into groups and make them hate one another so you can run them all. At the time, black South Africans outnumbered white South Africans nearly five to one, yet. Apr 9, · In reading, Born a Crime, I see why Trevor Noah became so wise at such a young age, besides his obvious intelligence. Growing up quickly in poverty, having a lack of opportunities, experiencing daily rampant overt racism, and witnessing his mother’s abuse (and near death) at the hand’s of his stepfather, among so many other things, Trevor.Mar 11, · Noah was born a crime, the 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. Names: Noah, Trevor, author. Title: Born a crime: stories from a South African childhood / by Trevor Noah. Description: First edition. | New York: Spiegel & Grau, Identifiers: LCCN | ISBN | ISBN (international) | ISBN (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Noah, Trevor | Comedians—United States—. Jan 12, · 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.