Roots - Brossura

Haley, A.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0099362813 ISBN 13: 9780099362814

Casa editrice: Random UK, 2000

Riassunto

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

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Recensione:

"Haley succeeds beautifully where many have failed... The book is an act of love, and it is this which makes it haunting" (James Baldwin New York Times)

"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" (Observer)

"Groundbreaking" (Associated Press)

"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" (Washington Post)

Descrizione del libro:

The radical, bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning account of Alex Haley's own twelve-year search for his family's origins – a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature

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• Editore: Random UK
• Data di pubblicazione: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0099362813
• ISBN 13: 9780099362814
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 704