Roots

Discover Alex Haley''s Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family''s origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature. Tracing his ancestry through six generations of architects, lawyers, blacksmiths, farmers, freedmen and slaves, Alex Haley''s research took him back to Africa and a sixteen-year-old youth named Kunta Kinte. Torn from his homeland and brought to the slave markets of the New World, re-imagining Kunta''s journey would allow Haley to explore his family''s deep and distant past. ''A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political manifesto, Roots not only inspired a generation of black activists, but drove home the bitter realities of racism to a mainstream white liberal audience'' Observer WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA, AUTHOR OF BLACK AND BRITISH

Product details

• Authors: Alex Haley, Haley Alex
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 30.09.2018
• EAN: 9781784873387
• ISBN: 978-1-78487-338-7
• No. of pages: 912
• Dimensions: 128 mm x 198 mm x 40 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Fiction > Narrative literature > Historical novels and narratives; FICTION / Historical / General, Historical fiction, FICTION / Biographical, FICTION / Literary, Narrative theme: Social issues, Relating to African American people, Modern and contemporary fiction, Biographical fiction, Modern and contemporary Fiction (post 1945), FICTION / African American & Black / Historical, Early 19th century c 1800 to c 1850, Later 18th century c 1750 to c 1799