Born A Crime. Stories from A South African Childhood director The Earth teems with sights

The Earth teems with sights and textures

when his home is no longer his own

It’s the summer of ’97 and the repressed Scottish town of Pitlaw is itching for change

Art exists all around us

In a book that will re-calibrate our view of this defining feature of our planet

Born A Crime. Stories from A South African Childhood director The Earth teems with sightsThe memoir of one mans coming of age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed. Trevor Noahs 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