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This is the extraordinary account of Alex Haley's own 12 year search for his family's origins. Tracing his ancestry through six generations he discovered a 16 year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.

Uhonorowana nagrodą Pulitzera epicka saga rodzinna.Powieść, która przez pół roku utrzymywała się na pierwszym miejscu listy bestsellerów New York Timesa, a nakręcony na jej podstawie serial stał się superhitem.Zainspirowana losami rodziny autora historia, która daje świadectwo sile ludzkiej pamięci i bezgranicznej woli przetrwania.Napisana oszczędnym, rzeczowym, wręcz surowym językiem i dzięki temu jeszcze bardziej poruszająca. Siedemnastoletni Kunta Kinte z plemienia Madinka w Gambii, syn wojownika, zostaje ujęty przez łowców niewolników i po koszmarnej podróży...

The radical, 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.

A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, May 30, 2016

"Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte."

So begins Roots, one of the most extraordinary and influential books of our time. Through the story of one family--his family--Alex Haley unforgettably brings to life the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six...

She vowed to find a better world for her children. Even if she had to make it herself.
A sweeping epic of contemporary history by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Alex Haley, this magnificent novel weaves an unforgettable story of one family, three generations, and their search for the American dream....
She is the heart and soul of her family who, through faith and courage, drives herself, her children, and her grandchildren onward, determined to propel them to a better place. Mama Flora, born to poor sharecroppers in Tennessee, is forced to raise her children alone after the murder of...

Captures life on a South Carolina Sea Island before the arrival of resort culture. This book contains photographs that document what daily life was like for the last inhabitants to occupy the land prior to the onset of tourist developments.

ONE OF TIME'S TEN MOST IMPORTANT NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

In the searing pages of this classic autobiography, originally published in 1964, Malcolm X, the Muslim leader, firebrand, and anti-integrationist, tells the extraordinary story of his life and the growth of the Black Muslim movement. His fascinating perspective on the lies and limitations of the American Dream, and the inherent racism in a society that denies its nonwhite citizens the opportunity to dream, gives extraordinary insight into the most urgent issues of our own time. The Autobiography...