#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime
story of one man's coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the
tumultuous days of freedom that followed
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
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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