#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The compelling, inspiring, and comically sublime story of one man’s coming-of-age, set during the twilight of apartheid and the tumultuous days of freedom that followed
NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
Michiko Kakutani, New York Times • Newsday • Esquire • NPR • Booklist
Trevor 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.
Praise for Born a Crime
“[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah’s] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author’s remarkable mother.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“[An] unforgettable memoir.”—Parade
“What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her—and an enormous gift to the rest of us.”—USA Today
“[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar.”—People
“[Noah’s] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations.”—Kirkus Reviews
Review
“[A] compelling new memoir . . . By turns alarming, sad and funny, [Trevor Noah’s] book provides a harrowing look, through the prism of Mr. Noah’s family, at life in South Africa under apartheid. . . . In the end, Born a Crime is not just an unnerving account of growing up in South Africa under apartheid, but a love letter to the author’s remarkable mother.”—Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times
“[An] unforgettable memoir.”—Parade
“You’d be hard-pressed to find a comic’s origin story better than the one Trevor Noah serves up in Born a Crime. . . . [He] developed his aptitude for witty truth telling [and]…every hardscrabble memory of helping his mother scrape together money for food, gas, school fees, and rent, or barely surviving the temper of his stepfather, Abel, reveals the anxious wellsprings of the comedian’s ambition and success. If there is harvest in spite of blight, the saying goes, one does not credit the blight-but Noah does manage to wring brilliant comedy from it.”—O: The Oprah Magazine
“What makes Born a Crime such a soul-nourishing pleasure, even with all its darker edges and perilous turns, is reading Noah recount in brisk, warmly conversational prose how he learned to negotiate his way through the bullying and ostracism. . . . What also helped was having a mother like Patricia Nombuyiselo Noah. . . . Consider Born a Crime another such gift to her—and an enormous gift to the rest of us.”—USA Today
“[Noah] thrives with the help of his astonishingly fearless mother. . . . Their fierce bond makes this story soar.”—People
“This isn't your average comic-writes-a-memoir: It’s a unique look at a man who is a product of his culture—and a nuanced look at a part of the world whose people have known dark times easily pushed aside.”—Refinery29
“Noah’s memoir is extraordinary . . . essential reading on every level. It’s hard to imagine anyone else doing a finer job of it.”—The Seattle Times
“Powerful prose . . . told through stories and vignettes that are sharply observed, deftly conveyed and consistently candid. Growing organically from them is an affecting investigation of identity, ethnicity, language, masculinity, nationality and, most of all, humanity—all issues that the election of Donald Trump in the United States shows are foremost in minds and hearts everywhere. . . . What the reader gleans are the insights that made Noah the thoughtful, observant, empathic man who wrote Born a Crime. . . . Here is a level-headed man, forged by remarkable and shocking life incidents, who is quietly determined and who knows where home and the heart lie. Would this unique story have been published had it been about someone not a celebrity of the planet? Possibly not, and to the detriment of potential readers, because this is a warm and very human story of the type that we will need to survive the Trump presidency’s imminent freezing of humane values.”—Mail & Guardian (South Africa)
“[Noah’s] story of surviving—and thriving—is mind-blowing.”—Cosmopolitan
“A gifted storyteller, able to deftly lace his poignant tales with amusing irony.”—Entertainment Weekly
“Noah has a real tale to tell, and he tells it well. . . . Among the many virtues of Born a Crime is a frank and telling portrait of life in South Africa during the 1980s and ’90s. . . . Born a Crime offers Americans a second introduction to Trevor Noah, and he makes a real impression.”—Newsday
“An affecting memoir, Born a Crime [is] a love letter to his mother.”—The Washington Post
“Witty and revealing . . . Noah’s story is the story of modern South Africa; though he enjoyed some privileges of the region’s slow Westernization, his formative years were shaped by poverty, injustice, and violence. Noah is quick with a disarming joke, and he skillfully integrates the parallel narratives via interstitial asides between chapters. . . . Perhaps the most harrowing tales are those of his abusive stepfather, which form the book’s final act (and which Noah cleverly foreshadows throughout earlier chapters), but equally prominent are the laugh-out-loud yarns about going to the prom, and the differences between ‘White Church’ and ‘Black Church.’”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)
“[A] substantial collection of staggering personal essays . . . Incisive, funny, and vivid, these true tales are anchored to his portrait of his courageous, rebellious, and religious mother who defied racially restrictive laws to secure an education and a career for herself—and to have a child with a white Swiss/German even though sex between whites and blacks was illegal. . . . [Trevor Noah’s] electrifying memoir sparkles with funny stories . . . and his candid and compassionate essays deepen our perception of the complexities of race, gender, and class.”—Booklist (starred review)
“A gritty memoir . . . studded with insight and provocative social criticism . . . with flashes of brilliant storytelling and acute observations.”—Kirkus Reviews

几年前，杨二车娜姆的一本《走出女儿国》自传小说，让人们认识了神秘的、来自泸沽湖的摩梭人，也领略了她与挪威外交官石丹梧的爱情传奇。后来这段佳话被娜姆写进《中国红遇见挪威蓝》一书中，成了女孩子们的爱情圣典。但是，娜姆令人羡慕的“国际走婚”在七年之后停住了脚步。娜姆在新书《七年之痒・中国红别了挪威蓝》中袒露了自己这段刻骨铭心的经历，以及这些年的所思所感。

回首望去，一帮小孩在阳光下无忧无虑地学习、生活、演戏……
哦，那些个令人心迷神醉的日子是多么地美妙啊！
十六岁真让人怀念，但它已经远去，已经离我而去了。
自从我很偶然地闯入了《十六岁的花季》那一扇幸运之门后，我的人生就被改写了。冥
冥之中，仿佛有那么一般力量在推动着我，使我身不由己，它把我引上了一条五彩缤纷的影视之路。

著名战地记者唐师曾当年在中东一线采访时受到辐射，身患血液病，生命随时可能遭遇危险，于是萌生要好好生个儿子的愿望。在几年内他全程拍摄了呵护妻子、孕育儿子、儿子出生前后及成长的大量照片，仅这些图片本身已具宝贵的价值。最近，他感到必须为儿子写一本书，他称这是有生以来投入感情最深的一本书，为此他日夜写作，拿出了一篇篇感人至深的文字。书中主要记录和描述作者与家族、儿子、朋友之间发生的系列故事，披露了大量鲜为人知的个人生活内情，穿插以独到而厚重的人生感悟和对未来的期待，使人读之动容、思之泣下。……他曾在耶路撒冷哭墙许过3个愿望：当好记者、娶好姑娘、生好儿子。现在，他说他要好好活下去，在有生之年看到第三个愿望的完全实现。所以他把这本书叫做“我第三个愿望”。
本书是作者在沉寂2年后重现书坛的一部风格迥异的新作，构思奇特，图文互为勾连、互为延展，纵深剖析内心世界，与唐师曾以往作品视角截然有别。本书保持了唐氏文章一贯的生动流畅、情深意长的风格，符合当下读图时代的阅读潮流，引领读者进行一次心灵过滤和精神升华。
本书成稿后，全国人大常委、中国著名法学家、我国婚姻法制定工作主持人巫昌桢教授欣然为之作序，高度评价了作者积极向上的人生态度和令人感动的父子深情。

陈鲁豫的这部新书记述了她生命历程中有趣的事情。从学生时代凭借骄人的英语能力获得“北京市奥林匹克英语大赛”冠军、主持中央电视台《艺苑风景线》、加盟凤凰台后直播澳门、香港回归，直到“千禧之旅”、“9·11”事件等等。而凤凰的同仁，执著坚韧的闾丘露薇、幽默无羁的窦文涛等在她的笔下也呈现出生动、鲜活的一面。余秋雨为该书作序。

★不伪装，不修饰，不隐瞒，不怨恨，且看一位名女人的真性情
★真实，勇敢，诚恳，坦然，达观，感激，分享一个平凡人的生命感悟
★有欢乐，有痛苦，有低谷，有奋起，有情，有爱，百分百真实，百分百感动
[编辑点评]
对于被不少人想当然地定位成笑星的宋丹丹来说，她的文笔之好让人吃惊。在这本书中，她的机智、幽默与才情展露无遗。她的文字很洗练，用词很准确，语言很大气。浸透纸背的，是岁月沉淀的智慧与体悟。对于自己复杂的情感经历，她毫不隐瞒，和盘托出。平淡而沉静的叙述下，是曾经沧海之后的静水流深；是苦中作乐，乐不忘忧的坚韧与清醒；是如今识尽愁滋味后的淡然处之；是看透看破后的依然坚持不放弃。这样的文字与人生，谁读了不会动容？
[内容介绍]
很多人只知道宋丹丹是笑星，却不知道她文笔了得。书中，她记录了自己的成长从艺经历，还毫不忌讳地谈到了她和英达的关系，她写道：“我一点都不怨他，哪个男人一辈子就盯着老婆一张脸看呢？”本书宋丹丹不仅写到自己的童年、工作、家人，还详细叙说了她的感情生活。
[关于这本书]
这些是我亲历的过往，我的所悲所喜，所忆所思。让我们附着于纸，便不随时光流逝，等我们变老，带着微笑，坐在摇椅上慢慢聊。
[关于宽恕]
有一天爸爸打电话叮嘱我说：“丹丹，女人啊，千万不能太厉害。”痛定思痛，我想过去的确是我太能干了，太霸道了，表现得太“聪明”了，我爸说的“厉害”指的正是这些。爱一个人，要长久地像宠孩子一样宠着他，任由他去做喜欢的事，高兴的事，让他生活得轻松自在，让他一想起我就笑。
有时候先生和他的朋友出去吃饭，或在外面玩到很晚，我一定不打电话去追问。我会给他发个短信：“门给你留着，灯给你开着，千万不要考虑我，我睡了。”很快，他的短信便回来：“大妮儿是我永远的、完整的最爱。”人到中年，我终于学会了如何去爱。
我和先生谈话时从不避讳我们从前失败的婚姻，在不断地追溯中我渐渐明白，那些曾令我忿忿不平，以为“不可原谅”的人与事，其实自有它存在的情理。我理解了英达，他在我心里仍是一个聪明的人，一个好人。如果说他的性格并不完美，是因为他在童年吃了太多苦，他的父母在“文革”中都进了监狱。他没有成年人的保护，也没有得到爱。我也理解了其他给我带来伤害的人。因为成长的环境不同，接触的人不同，性格不同，运气不同，你无法要求每个人在处理问题的时候都善良和充满理性。除了需要法律介入的事情，世界上没有什么是不可原谅的。
[关于情感]
初恋：相爱5年后他去了美国
书中，宋丹丹首先讲到她19岁那年的初恋。那时刚恢复高考没两年，许多已不是学生的青年走回中学校门，和应届生一起复习高考。有一天下雨，宋丹丹到教室门口发现一个陌生人。他就是宋丹丹的第一个男朋友，一个转业军人。在书中，宋丹丹说“现在回想起来，我是第一眼就爱上他了”。在两人相爱了５年后，因他去了美国，宋丹丹结束了第一段恋情。
第一次婚姻 维持一年就分手
在结束了初恋后，24岁的宋丹丹为了摆脱阴影，很快和另一个认识的男孩恋爱3个月后闪电结婚。这段婚姻只维持了一年。她在书中透露：“那一年我们甜蜜得发腻。每天晚上，如果我先到家，没看见他，就沿着他回家的路去迎他。反之他也会去迎我。丝毫不觉累。”对于分手，宋丹丹认为：“大概是因为再没有更多的缘分让我们继续共度更长的时光。”
第二次婚姻 与英达走过10年
离婚后一年多，宋丹丹遇见了英达，他们共同走过10年。在书中，宋丹丹透露了他们婚姻中曾有过的幸福点滴，当英达第一次挣大钱时，他高兴地将6万元撒向空中，有一叠落在了房顶的大吊扇上。大冬天，他们不得不启动它，让“无数张”百元大钞纷纷飘落下来，全家都撅着屁股拣，满屋回荡着欢快的笑声。
第三次婚姻 相识28天就结婚
1997年8月25日，宋丹丹与相识仅28天的赵先生注册结婚，那天恰是宋丹丹的生日。对于这份感情，宋丹丹在书中说：“我从没敢想象我的幸福来得那么突然。那一天，他出现了，像一束光，把我和我的四周以及我目光所及的世界照亮，我是那么幸福。我失去过爱，才懂得如何珍惜爱，才知道我需要什么样的爱情。”

崔永元在书中“交代”了曾把小狗养在单位里，与领导逗闷子的恶作剧；再往后，读者又获悉了崔永元为了白天电视台台长不经意的一句问询，半夜里辗转反侧，想睡无法入睡的煎熬。于是，眼看着小崔痛苦不堪地一只一只地数着羊——采取“人工催眠”方法，读者却开心得自愿放弃睡眠，津津有味地消遣起小崔的苦大“愁”深来……
切肤之痛，名人尤难承受。小崔却“刀工”上乘。自嘲起自己来一点儿不客气，不小气。大男人的意气风发，横扫一切自恋、自赏，于是，大家看到一个与荧屏前的“遭”人瞩目，“挨”人仰视的大腕相去甚远的血肉之躯。他反省自己的一举一动；他宽宥那个年代母亲打孩子的不得已；他总之台上台下，怎么也找不出做名人的感觉——“链接”的朋友都是读者不认识的一群普通人，字里行间却跳动着他一颗平常心。
外国有句谚语，叫做：“实话是我们最宝贵的东西，所以我们应该节省着用。”但崔永元在书中延续了他在《实话实说》里的风格。其中对他的领导调侃，让人在会心一笑之余，又不禁为他捏一把汗，这么写顶头上司，行吗？
崔永元说，38年长成一个萝卜，现在一片一片切给大家看。他说过谎、他挨过打、他让老师刻意修理过、他做过买卖……他人生中的种种体验，信手写来。

《今生今世》是胡兰成坎坷一生的自传，他到日本后写成，书名为张爱玲所取。书中，他多情地描述了自己的生活和爱情。

《我的奋斗》是老罗写的一本极具语言才华的自传，也是他给剽悍的人生一个解释。作者他是一个走路都往下掉个性的胖子。他上幼儿园的时候，就被老师描述成一个“思想特别复杂的孩子”；他在学校里跟愚蠢的制度对抗了九年，成为一个高中没毕业的小混混，然后，一直混到“中国第二著名的英语教师”、百度年度风云人物、牛博网创办人、“老罗培训”学校的校长。
读“老罗式”的幽默，可以感知他的诚恳和热情；读老罗的传奇经历, 可以领悟如何用剽悍的内心创造传奇。
《我的奋斗》读者对象：中学生、大学生；老罗在新东方和老罗培训学校的学生；都市里奋斗的年轻人；15-40岁的读者。
《我的奋斗》附赠品：罗永浩全国高校巡回演讲DVD光盘。

本书是“美捷步”（Zappos）首席执行官谢家华创造奇迹的心路历程与商业哲学的精华萃取，分享了他在商场与生活中得到的宝贵经验与教训。从儿时创办蚯蚓养殖场到大学经营比萨生意，从“链接交换”公司到“美捷步”品牌，本书将谢家华的个人传记与其公司传奇的商业史完美结合，不仅打造了一套利润、激情和目标渐次递进的独特商业模式，更揭示了成功路上起决定作用的真正秘密：奉上幸福。