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The Saga of an American Family

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An edition of Roots (1861)

Roots

The Saga of an American Family

Anv edition
  • 4.5 (13 ratings) ·
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  • 21 Currently reading
  • 21 Have read

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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Publisher
Vanguard Press
Language
English
Pages
899

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Roots
2018, Penguin Random House
in English
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
2016, Hachette Books
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
May 03, 2016, Da Capo Press
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Nov 24, 2015, Ishi Press
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Sep 12, 2013, AudioGO
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
Sep 12, 2013, Sound Library, AudioGO
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Roots : the Enhanced Edition: The Saga of an American Family
2011, Vanguard Press
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
May 22, 2007, BBC Audiobooks America
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2007, Vanguard Books
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
2007, Vanguard Press
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Roots: The Saga of an American Family
2007, Vanguard Press
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2005, Buccaneer Books
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2000, Gramercy Books
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1991, Vintage
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1991, Vintage
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Roots (Dell Book)
October 15, 1980, Dell
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1980, Zap Bavos
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Roots
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1976, Bantam Doubleday Dell
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Format
Paperback
Number of pages
899
Dimensions
7.9 x 5.5 x 2.3 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

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Open Library
OL8871139M
Internet Archive
rootssagaamerica00hale_384
ISBN 10
1593154496
ISBN 13
9781593154493
Library Thing
825
Goodreads
198167

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First Sentence

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

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