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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Wurzeln
700 pages
German language
Published 1980
- ISBN:
- 978-3-353-00117-7Copied ISBN!
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Racines tome 2
380 pages
French language
Published 1979 by J'ai Lu.
- ISBN:
- 978-2-277-11969-2Copied ISBN!
Roots
mass market paperback
English language
Published May 9, 1992 by Doubleday Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-440-80311-9Copied ISBN!
Roots
912 pages
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2018 by Penguin Random House.
- ISBN:
- 978-1-78487-338-7Copied ISBN!
Raíces
520 pages
Spanish language
Published Oct. 9, 1978 by Ultramar.
- ISBN:
- 978-84-7386-134-2Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2016 by Hachette Books.
- ISBN:
- 978-0-306-82486-9Copied ISBN!
Roots: The Saga of an American Family
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2007 by Vanguard Press.
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- 978-1-59315-466-0Copied ISBN!
Roots : the Enhanced Edition
English language
Published Oct. 9, 2011 by Vanguard Press.
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- 978-1-59315-699-2Copied ISBN!
Wurzeln.
German language
Published Oct. 9, 1978 by S. Fischer.
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- 978-3-10-029401-2Copied ISBN!
Racines
477 pages
French language
Published 1977 by Alta.
Roots.
Undetermined language
Published Oct. 9, 1977 by s.n.].
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