![]() 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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