Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne
Tracing his ancestry through six generations - slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lawyers and architects - back to Africa, Alex Haley discovered a sixteen-year-old youth, Kunta Kinte. It was this young man, who had been torn from his homeland and in torment and anguish brought to the slave markets of the New World, who held the key to Haley's deep and distant past.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award
- ISBN10 0440174643
- ISBN13 9780440174646
- Publish Date 15 October 1980 (first published 31 December 1969)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
- Format Paperback
- Pages 729
- Language English