Trevor Noah
Trevor Noah, a South African comedian and the current host of TheDaily Show, was born to a white father and a black mother in apartheid South Africa, at a time when interracial relationships were banned. Born a Crime, his memoir of growing up in Johannesburg in the 1980s and 1990s, provides a ground-level view of the violence and absurdity of everyday life under apartheid. It also tackles the enormous challenges facing the post-apartheid democratic state, including transcending race-thinking and building an inclusive society—but Noah explores these serious issues with irony and wit.
Hachette India, 304 pages, Rs 399