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Alex Haley - Roots: The Saga of an American Family

Alex Haley - Roots: The Saga of an American Family

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Authors: Alex Haley
Narrator: Avery Brooks
Fiction Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Professional Reviews
: Haley, Alex, New York Times Book Review: "'As I look at it now,' says Alex Haley, 'it seems there was a meant-to-be quality about 'Roots'. I first heard the story told by my grandmother as a child, that was the real beginning....Whenever we children came around, she would repeat the story of the man she called 'the African,' how he was captured and what happened to him in America. After a while we started acting out the incidents, play-acting, recreating everything she told us, and it became an indelible memory for me....Although it's advertised as nonfiction, perhaps we should call it 'faction.' Every statement in 'Roots' is accurate in terms of authenticity....The beginning is a re-creation, using novelistic techniques, but as it moves forward more is known and it is more factually based.'"
Book Editions
: Format: Audio - MP3 CD
Publisher: Bbc Audiobooks Amer (June 01, 2007)
Measurements: 6"(h) x 5.25"(w) x 1"(d), 0.3 lbs.
ISBN: 9781602832893
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Details: An historical narrative of slavery in the American South. Based upon actual researches conducted over a period of years, Haley reconstructs the events that led to the enslavement of Kunte Kinte, the "African" identified in Haley's family lore as their founding father, and his settlement on American shores. Kinte, in his own history, becomes an allegory of the history of the millions of Africans brought forcibly to America, and of the people they became in the intervening years.
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