Alex Haley
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 729 pages Rating: 4.44 | 140152 Users | 3217 Reviews
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| Title | : | Roots: The Saga of an American Family |
| Author | : | Alex Haley |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 729 pages |
| Published | : | November 1st 1977 by Dell Publishing Company (first published August 17th 1976) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Science Fiction. Dragons. Fiction. Science Fiction Fantasy. Young Adult. High Fantasy |
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When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"—Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter. Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author. But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.Describe Books Conducive To Roots: The Saga of an American Family
| Original Title: | Roots |
| ISBN: | 0440174643 (ISBN13: 9780440174646) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | George Lincoln Rockwell, Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte |
| Setting: | United States of America Gambia |
| Literary Awards: | ASJA Outstanding Book Award (1978), Audie Award for Nonfiction (2008), Premio Bancarella (1978), National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for General Nonfiction (1976), Lillian Smith Book Award (1977) |
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Ratings: 4.44 From 140152 Users | 3217 ReviewsEvaluation Of Books Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Alex Haley's novel is more than just a piece of award-winning literature, but a glimpse into the soul of America's lifeblood, even though it touches on areas that many would likely wish to see forgotten. In the opening portion of the novel, Haley introduces the reader to the small villages of Gambia, where one Kunta Kinte is born and raised. Kunta explores a life of simplicity but also relative complexity, as he grows up learning the ways of his people, always warned about the dangers of the"Roots" is the supposed genealogical recounting of Alex Haley's African roots to his great-great-great grandfather, Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka tribesman who was captured and sold into slavery. The story follows Kunta through his upbringing in Gambia, capture, voyage across the sea, sale, attempted escapes, mutilation at the hands of slave capturers, marriage to slave housekeeper and the birth of his daughter Kizzy. The story then follows Kizzy's sale to another owner and the birth of her son,
This is probably the book that started my historical fiction fixation. I read this in my early teenage years along with the Clan of the Cavebear books, Gone With The Wind and the North and South series. I love how it brings history to life. The characters are real and you can sympathize with their situations -- particularly Kunta Kinte's. It made the horrible practice of slavery real and how it dehumanizing it was. I think that reading it at a young age made me into a more compassionate person.
I have never read anything like this in my life. Take the time. It is well worth it.
Roots: The Saga of an American Family = Roots, Alex Haley Roots: The Saga of an American Family is a novel written by Alex Haley and first published in 1976. Roots tells the story of Kunta Kintea young man taken from the Gambia when he was seventeen and sold as a slaveand seven generations of his descendants in the United States. Kunta, a Mandinka living by the River Gambia, has a difficult but free childhood in his village, Juffure. His village subsists on farming, and sometimes they lack
I read this book long, long ago: came across it while going through a book list here on Goodreads, and suddenly felt the urge to post a review.Dear Kunta Kinte,We are separated by time, space and culture. Throughout your largely tragic life, you would never have imagined that your story would ever be written, let alone read by a bookish teenager in far-away India, for whom slavery till that day was only a fact learned from school textbooks, mucked up to pass hated history exams. However, Mr.
This was one of the first books I ever read concerning the trans-Atlantic slave trade and American slavery, and I consider the work one of the greatest epics ever written. I certainly recommend reading the actual book instead of watching the television mini-series. The historical research conducted by Haley in composing this masterpiece is awe-inspiring. A definite literary selection long-marked as required reading for my daughters once they reach middle school...as it should be read by all
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