![]() ![]() Her defiance led her to choose to have a child she knew would be born a crime. ![]() Haha! I finished the book and seriously thought to myself Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah is absolutely one of my heroes. He confirmed my thoughts in an interview when he said that it wasn’t until he finished writing the book that he realized that the compilation of the stories he shared painted his mother as the hero and him as just her sidekick. The interesting part of this book was realizing that Trevor wasn’t really the hero of his own story. The author effortlessly takes the reader on a ride that could very much be compared to a roller coaster: one second you’re sad that hate and racism could prevail so much in our world that someone’s mere existence can be deemed a crime, the next, you’re crying of laughter at the author’s wit and delivery and a moment after that, you’re thinking I cannot wait to meet this man in person and don’t get me started about his mother. It’s one of those things that have to be experienced because no amount of explanation would help you comprehend the sound but if it helps, Xhosa reads more like a clicking sound followed by kosa.īecause Trevor is a comedian, one can expect the book to be funny and it was but the story line was by no means predictable. Had I read the word “Xhosa”, I am not even sure how I would have pronounced it in my head but I found out that this language is full of clicking sounds. Trevor spoke Xhosa many times in the book which is one of the official languages of South Africa. Listening to an audio book that is narrated by the author himself, the listener definitely gets a better sense of the emotions behind the words. Trevor’s mere existence was evidence of his parents’ “crime” so for the majority of his childhood, he had to be hidden because a “colored” child was seen as superior to his Black counterparts and inferior to his White counterparts. The simple fact that his mother, a black woman conceived a child by a Caucasian man was a crime punishable by up to 5 years of imprisonment. In addition to that, you are able to increase the narration speed up to 3 times faster than normal which means you could totally listen to multiple books a day. I highly recommend Audible and if you’ve never used it before, you’re able to get a 30 day free trial and listen to your first book for free.īorn a crime is the perfect title for this memoir in which Trevor Noah, the current host of The Daily Show goes into details about his experiences growing up during Apartheid in South Africa. On the bright side, if you were to listen straight through, you could finish a book in just a day because this one for example was only 8 hours and 41 minutes long. That, ladies and gentlemen is an accomplishment worth mentioning!ĭo any of you use Audible? It is seriously life changing though it can eventually become a bit pricey if you’re constantly buying new books. Maybe you would consider this cheating because I wasn’t actually ‘reading’ but I believe I finished listening to it within 3 days. A few months into the year and I’ve kind of fallen off my plan to read a book a month so to get back on track, I downloaded the audio book version of Born a crime: Stories from a South African Childhood by Trevor Noah and I absolutely could not stop listening to it. ![]()
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