by Alex Haley · EDITIONS J'AI LU N°968 · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782277119685
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«Racines, tomo 1» is the historical novel by Alex Haley, published by Éditions J'ai Lu in paperback (384 pages, in French).
Alex Haley reconstructs the history of his ancestors from Kunta Kinte, a young African captured and sold as a slave in America. The narrative follows his life on a Virginia plantation, his escape attempts and those of his descendants, in a story about identity, resistance and African-American memory.
First volume of the «Racines» saga, which the author documented over twelve years of research into his own genealogy.
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X.
