
Roots
by Alex Haley
Title:
Roots
Author:
Alex Haley
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
912 pages
Publisher:
Vintage Publishing
ISBN-13:
9781784873387
EAN:
9781784873387
Publication Date:
13/09/2018
Classifications:
Modern and Contemporary (Post c 1945)
Weight (g):
748
Dimensions (mm):
193 x 179 x 40
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Description
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











