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Roots
- Author
- Alex Haley
- Narrator
- Avery Brooks
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 20 October 2011
- Run Time
- 30 hours 6 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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- Author
- Alex Haley
- Narrator
- Avery Brooks
- Duration
- 30 hours 6 minutes
- Release Date
- 20 October 2011
- ISBN
- 9781448115563
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Classic fiction: literary and general, Historical fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: literary and general, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems
Synopsis
Tracing his ancestory 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 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.
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