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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Record no. 2569)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number	9781473635302
082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number	791.450
Item number	NOA
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name	Trevor Noah
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title	Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
Statement of responsibility, etc.	by Trevor Noah
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC.
Place of publication, distribution, etc.	London
Name of publisher, distributor, etc.	John Murray
Date of publication, distribution, etc.	21/09/2017
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Page number	304
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc.	The compelling, inspiring, (often comic) coming-of-age story of Trevor Noah, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed.<br/><br/>One of the comedy world’s brightest new voices, Trevor Noah is a light-footed but sharp-minded observer of the absurdities of politics, race and identity, sharing jokes and insights drawn from the wealth of experience acquired in his relatively young life. As host of the US hit show The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, he provides viewers around the globe with their nightly dose of biting satire, but here Noah turns his focus inward, giving readers a deeply personal, heartfelt and humorous look at the world that shaped him.<br/><br/>Noah was born a crime, son of 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 first 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, take him away.<br/><br/>A collection of eighteen personal stories, Born a Crime tells the story of a mischievous young boy growing into a restless young man as he struggles to find his place in a world where he was never supposed to exist. Born a Crime is equally the story of that young man’s fearless, rebellious and fervently religious mother – a woman determined to save her son from the cycle of poverty, violence and abuse that ultimately threatens her own life.<br/><br/>Whether subsisting on caterpillars for dinner during hard times, being thrown from a moving car during an attempted kidnapping, or just trying to survive the life-and-death pitfalls of dating in high school, Noah illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and an unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a personal portrait of an unlikely childhood in a dangerous time, as moving and unforgettable as the very best memoirs and as funny as Noah’s own hilarious stand-up. Born a Crime is a must read.
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element	Autobiography: Arts & Entertainment / Humour / Republic Of South Africa
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Source of classification or shelving scheme	Dewey Decimal Classification
Koha item type	Books

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Withdrawn status	Lost status	Source of classification or shelving scheme	Damaged status	Not for loan	Collection code	Home library	Current library	Shelving location	Date acquired	Source of acquisition	Cost, normal purchase price	Inventory number	Total Checkouts	Full call number	Barcode	Date last seen	Cost, replacement price	Price effective from	Currency	Koha item type
		Dewey Decimal Classification			Non-fiction	IIITDM Kurnool	IIITDM Kurnool	AUTOBIOGRAPHY	12.06.2025	Technical Bureau India	499.00	TB419 DT 19/5/2025		791.450 NOA	0007471	12.06.2025	499.00	12.06.2025	INR	Books