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內容簡介 【比爾蓋茲推薦書單：歷年推薦】「別的小孩出生是證明他們父母的愛，只有我的出生是證明他們犯下的罪」－－崔佛．諾亞「他的幽默中帶有一種輕鬆和樂觀的態度，他將自己局外人的視角當做優勢，透過這本書，我們可以了解到一個身世悲慘的男孩如何克服現實困難，用他的生命經驗演繹出獨一無二的『喜劇』表演。」－－比爾蓋茨一種南非式的幽默，超越川普新白人至上主義他從南非骯髒街頭而來，翻轉成美國《每日秀》當家主持人更被《時代雜誌》選為2017年十位引領下個世代的領導人之一親口述說一個混血兒在種族隔離時代的童年悲喜劇喜劇演員的背後，是無數次自我追問「我是誰？」「我的出生是罪惡嗎？」以及母親用「愛」不厭其煩的回答過去，提到南非如果你只知道曼德拉，現在起，請記得崔佛．諾亞（Trevor Noah），一位來自南非最底層，黑白混血的喜劇演員。這本書裡寫的是他「格格不入」的童年過往，也是他征服美國的成功底蘊。崔佛．諾亞出生在種族隔離制度盛行的南非，當時跨種族通婚被明令禁止。既非全黑，又不全白的身份，讓他在當地倍受歧視。不被認同，也找不到歸屬感，讓混血兒的諾亞覺得自己生下來就像個罪犯。然而，他卻在母親的影響下成為非常受歡迎的喜劇演員。比爾蓋茲說：「諾亞的母親是真正的英雄，她給孩子最好的禮物，就是解放他的思想，讓他學會用自己的角度看世界。」通過童年一次又一次的經歷，崔佛發現在與他人建立聯繫這件事上，語言比膚色更有力量，他說：「我的膚色不會改變，但我能改變你對我膚色的看法。我也許看起來不像你，但如果我說話像你，我和你就是同一類人。」悲劇又充滿諷刺的成長童年，和對語言的天份與努力，揉合成崔佛喜劇的基底與元素，在距離南非坐飛機十八小時外的美國，贏得了美國人的喜愛與認同，不分白人還是黑人。比爾蓋茲說閱讀這本書，讓他質疑自己對世界的想法，再次思考生命的價值。台灣是個移民社會，在這片土地上我們太習慣彼此仇視，也充斥著身份認同的問題。時序來到2017年末，此時此刻，我們推出這本書，希望能對台灣讀者有所啟發，並成為這片土地上的人能夠彼此認同的開端。本書介出自遠流出版《以母之名: 她教我用幽默與微笑對抗世界》#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 BooklistTrevor 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.The stories collected here are by turns hilarious, dramatic, and deeply affecting. 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, Trevor illuminates his curious world with an incisive wit and unflinching honesty. His stories weave together to form a moving and searingly funny portrait of a boy making his way through a damaged world in a dangerous time, armed only with a keen sense of humor and a mother’s unconventional, unconditional love."
