Born a Crime
Trevor Noah, 2016
Βιογραφίες και απομνημονεύματα
Ατμόσφαιρα: θαυμασμός. Μιλά για την ταυτότητα, τον πόλεμο και την οικογένεια.
Μια σελίδα από το βιβλίο
I was nine years old when my mother threw me out of a moving car. It happened on a Sunday. I know it was on a Sunday because we were coming home from church, and every Sunday in my childhood meant church. We never missed church. My mother was—and still is— a deeply religious woman. Very Christian. Like indigenous peoples around the world, black South Africans adopted the religion of our colonizers. By “adopt” I mean it was forced on us. The white man was quite stern with the native. “You need to pray to Jesus,” he said. “Jesus will save you.” To which the native replied, “Well, we do need to be saved—saved from you, but that’s beside the point. So let’s give this Jesus thing a shot.” Βιβλία με παρόμοια αίσθηση
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Ερωτήσεις αναγνωστών
- Πώς είναι το «Born a Crime»;
- Ατμόσφαιρα: θαυμασμός. Μιλά για την ταυτότητα, τον πόλεμο και την οικογένεια.
- Τι να διαβάσω μετά το «Born a Crime»;
- Αν σου άρεσε το «Born a Crime», δοκίμασε «Becoming» (Michelle Obama), «Running with Scissors» (Augusten Burroughs) και «Me Talk Pretty One Day» (David Sedaris).
Μια γεύση από τη ροή
Grief does not stay at the graveside; it follows you to the fridge.
It hurts to live after someone has died. It just does. It can hurt to walk down a hallway or open the fridge. It hurts to put on a pair of socks, to brush your teeth. Food tastes like nothing. Colors go flat. Music hurts, and so do memories. You look at something you’d otherwise find beautiful—a purple sky at sunset or a playground full of kids—and it only somehow deepens the loss. Grief is so lonely this way.
Becoming · Michelle Obama
What a parent's accent does to the shape of a sentence.
My mother is from Cairo, Georgia. This makes everything she says sound like it went through a curling iron. Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.
Running with Scissors · Augusten Burroughs
What New York couples stay together for, when the children aren't the reason.
In other parts of the country people tried to stay together for the sake of the children. In New York they tried to work things out for the sake of the apartment.
Me Talk Pretty One Day · David Sedaris
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