Born a crime trevor noah audio book4/20/2024 ![]() ![]() If you have the patience, listen to it as an audiobook. I’m not a big fan of celebrity memoirs or autobiographies, but this is exceptional. Trevor Noah is a rare person, able to appreciate the good stuff in his life and not obsess over the considerable amount of injustice he has experienced. I don’t think I’ve ever said that about a book. Even when he’s serious, there is grace and wit - plus a sweetness and generosity of spirit that’s rather uplifting. You might think with all of this terrible stuff - and some of it is really horrific - that this would be an angry, possibly embittered man. He has a beautiful, melodic voice and a lovely cadence. I listened to the audiobook because Noah reads it himself. I don’t know if Noah intended it as a cautionary tale, but it is. One of the other noteworthy things about this book was that I learned great deal about things I thought I already knew. I knew it was bad, but South Africa refined oppression into an art form. Actually, you may not be able to imagine it. Add to that extreme poverty, violence and life under the most oppressive, racist regime you can imagine. So merely surviving until the end of apartheid was no mean feat. His birth was, as the title of his book suggests, a crime.Īs the child of a white father and a black mother under South Africa during apartheid, if he had been noticed by the authorities, they would have taken him from his family and put him … somewhere. Born under apartheid, his existence was illegal. Name something bad that a kid can experience and it probably happened to him. ![]() There is a lot of awful stuff children endure. There are lots of books written by people - including me - who had a hard time growing up. I don’t review a lot of books anymore, but this one got to me. Seine emotionale Reife und Güte ist beeindruckend.Home › Audiobook › BORN A CRIME – TREVOR NOAHīy Marilyn Armstrong on Decem Wie schwierig es für Kinder ist, eine solche absurde politische Situation, wie Apartheid, zu verstehen und damit um zu gehen - damit zu leben als 'crime' geboren zu sein. Was wäre für andere Hörer sonst noch hilfreich zu wissen, um das Hörbuch richtig einschätzen zu können?ĭie Komplexität von Südafrika's Geschichte wird erklärt. Außerdem ist er Comedian trough and trough. Da sein Leben geprägt von vielen Höhen und Tiefen war, entstanden aus dem extremen Rahmenbedingungen der Apartheid, kommen Emotionen definitiv nicht zu kurz. Trevor Noah erzählt seine Kindheitsgeschichte anschaulich und sehr nachvollziehbar. Hat dieses Hörbuch Sie emotional stark bewegt? Mussten Sie laut z.B. Die Szene spiegelt die Macht der Sprache und die weiteren Auswirkungen wunderschön wenn auch bittersüß wieder. Welche Szene hat Ihnen am besten gefallen?Īls Trevor sich im Gefängnis mit dem Hulk-look-a-like anfreundet und so die Situation gut übersteht. ![]() Ein Hoffnungsschimmer für die Regenbogennation, in der die Zukunft schwarzer Kinder oftmals nicht so rosig aussieht. Sie zeigt, dass Empowerment in Südafrika möglich ist und dass Kinder aus armen Verhältnissen es schaffen können, den Armutsteufelskreislauf zu durchbrechen. ![]() Was mochten Sie an der Handlung am liebsten? Spannung, Spaß - und das autobiographisch. Auf welchen Platz würden Sie Born a Crime auf Ihrer Hörbuch-Bestenliste setzen?ġ. ![]()
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