《紐約時報》暢銷榜第一名 • 銷量突破百萬冊！一本「精彩絕倫」（露琵塔·尼永奧，《時代》雜誌）、「感人至深」（《娛樂周刊》）、「滋養心靈」（《今日美國》）的回憶錄，講述了在種族隔離制度末期成長的故事。
「諾亞以他喜劇中標誌性的幽默和智慧講述了他的童年故事，同時也揭示了南非歷史上那段黑暗而殘酷的時期，這段歷史絕不應被遺忘。」——《時尚先生》
榮獲瑟伯美國幽默獎與美國有色人種協進會形象獎 • 被《紐約時報》、《今日美國》、《舊金山紀事報》、美國國家公共電台、《時尚先生》、《新聞日報》和《書單》評為年度最佳圖書之一
特雷弗諾亞從種族隔離時期的南非到《每日秀》主播台的非凡人生，始於一個「犯罪」事件：他的出生。崔佛的父親是瑞士白人，母親是科薩族黑人。在那個年代，這樣的結合會被判處五年監禁。作為父母不檢點行為的活生生的例證，特雷弗在幼年時期幾乎被禁錮在室內，母親為了躲避隨時可能將他帶走的政府，採取了極端且往往荒謬的措施。隨著南非白人暴政統治的結束，特雷弗終於獲得了自由，他和母親踏上了一段偉大的冒險之旅，公開自由地生活，並擁抱了幾個世紀以來鬥爭所贏得的機會。
《天生有罪》講述了一個頑皮的男孩成長為一個不安分的青年，在這個他本不該存在的世界裡努力尋找自我的故事。同時，它也講述了這個青年與他無畏、叛逆且虔誠的母親之間的故事——他的母親是他的隊友，她決心將兒子從貧困、暴力和虐待的惡性循環中拯救出來，因為這些最終也會威脅到她自己的生命。
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • More than one million copies sold! A “brilliant” (Lupita Nyong’o, Time), “poignant” (Entertainment Weekly), “soul-nourishing” (USA Today) memoir about coming of age during the twilight of apartheid
“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
Winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor and an NAACP Image Award • Named one of the best books of the year by The New York Time, USA Today, San Francisco Chronicle, NPR, Esquire, Newsday, and Booklist
Trevor Noah’s unlikely path from apartheid South Africa to the desk of The Daily Show began with a criminal act: his birth. 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. 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. 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.
Born 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. 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.
