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'ObserverWITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID OLUSOGA,AUTHOR OF BLACK AND BRITISH
Publisher: Vintage PublishingISBN: 9781784873387Number of pages: 912Weight: 617 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 38 mm
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A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political manifesto,it not only inspired a generation of black activists,but drove home the bitter realities of racism to a mainstream white liberal audienceA Pulitzer Prize-winning story about the family ancestry of author Alex Haley... (and) a symbolic chronicle of the odyssey of African Americans from the continent of Africa to a land not of their choosingHaley succeeds beautifully where many have failed... The book is an act of love,and it is this which makes it haunting
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