ROOTS

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.

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.  

Tracing his ancestry through six generations of architects, lawyers, blacksmiths, farmers, freedmen and slaves, Alex Haley’s research took him back to Africa and a sixteen-year-old youth named Kunta Kinte. Torn from his homeland and brought to the slave markets of the New World, re-imagining Kunta’s journey would allow Haley to explore his family’s deep and distant past.

«A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political manifesto, "Roots" not only inspired a generation of black activists, but drove home the bitter realities of racism to a mainstream white liberal audience.» 
Observer