Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to …
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Roots is a novel written by Alex Haley and published in 1976. It portrays the story of Kunta Kinte, an 18th-century African, captured as an adolescent and sold into slavery in the United States, and follows his life and the lives of his alleged descendants in the U.S. down to Haley. The release of the novel, combined with its hugely popular television adaptation, Roots (1977), led to a cultural sensation in the United States. The novel spent 46 weeks on The New York Times Best Seller List, including 22 weeks in that list’s top spot. The last seven chapters of the novel were later adapted in the form of a second mini-series, Roots: The Next Generations, in 1979.
The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.
Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past, and we continue to feel its reverberations today.
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- LibraryThing key:
- 825
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Roots
Hardcover, 600 pages
English language
Published Oct. 2, 2007 by Vanguard Press.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-59315-457-8Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 317726864
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
audio cd
English language
Published May 22, 2007 by BBC Audiobooks America.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-60283-197-1Copied ISBN!
Roots
688 pages
English language
Published Oct. 9, 1991 by Vintage.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-952200-3Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
704 pages
English language
Published April 5, 2007 by Vintage.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-936281-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 869208
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
688 pages
English language
Published Jan. 21, 1994 by Vintage Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-09-936281-4Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 869208
Racines
750 pages
French language
Published 1999 by J'ai Lu.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-290-05393-5Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 489843
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
mp3 cd
Published Feb. 1, 2014 by AudioGO and Blackstone Audio, Blackstone Audiobooks.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4830-0273-6Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
mp3 cd
Published Sept. 12, 2013 by Sound Library, AudioGO.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4829-6204-8Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
audio cd
Published Sept. 12, 2013 by AudioGO.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-4829-6203-1Copied ISBN!
Roots
Hardcover
English language
Published Dec. 30, 2006 by Buccaneer Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-56849-471-5Copied ISBN!
- OCLC Number:
- 500668362
Radici
505 pages
Italian language
Published Jan. 12, 2005 by RCS MediaGroup.
- ISBN:
- 978-88-17-00540-1Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 9651919
Roots: the saga of an American family
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2000 by Gramercy Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-517-20860-1Copied ISBN!
Raíces
594 pages
Spanish language
Published 1978 by Emecé Editores.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-473-0454-7Copied ISBN!
- Goodreads:
- 12173167
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