• What book is currently on your nightstand?
  • Who is the author?
  • What genre?
  • How do you like it?
  • Would you recommend it to others?
  • Labonnie@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    What book: Born a crime.

    Author: Trevor Noah

    Genre: Memoir

    How do you like it: very much. I barely read a book where I was shaking my head so much bc of the atrocities that were going on in the South African apartheid

    Would you recommend it? Absolutely.

    • Pons_Aelius@kbin.social
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      1 year ago

      I have read a few person accounts of that time in SA, and I am not surprised in the slightest at your reaction. Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom is the first that springs to mind. Inspiring, yet heartbreaking.