Imprint: Vintage
Published: 21/01/1994
ISBN: 9780099362814
Length: 704 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 36mm x 129mm
Weight: 506g
RRP: £10.99
Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne
Tracing his ancestry through six generations – slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects – back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
Imprint: Vintage
Published: 21/01/1994
ISBN: 9780099362814
Length: 704 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 36mm x 129mm
Weight: 506g
RRP: £10.99
Haley succeeds beautifully where many have failed... The book is an act of love, and it is this which makes it haunting
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 audience
Groundbreaking
A 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 choosing