roots by alex haley summary

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 andA 50th-anniversary edition of one of the most powerful novels by the great Kenyan author and Nobel Prize nominee A legen . His first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, after which he spent twelve years researching and writing Roots, which won the Pulitzer Prize and the Haley wrote black folk into the book of American heritage and gave us the confidence to believe that we could find our forebears even as he shared his own.