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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

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Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence FishburneTracing his ancestry through six generations –... Read more

    Publisher: Vintage Publishing
    Publication Date: 21/01/1994
    ISBN13: 9780099362814, 978-0099362814
    ISBN10: 0099362813

    Number of Pages: 704

    Fiction , Classics

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    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

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