by Alex Haley · Circulo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422616450
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Roots is a novel by Alex Haley that tells the story of Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka man captured in Gambia and sold into slavery on a cotton plantation in the United States. Through the reconstruction of Kunta Kinte's story, Haley explores the themes of slavery, identity, and the search for the African roots of African Americans. The novel is a moving and powerful account of the cruelty of slavery and the resilience of the human spirit.
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.
