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Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0099362813
ISBN 13
9780099362814
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Unknown
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Publication Year
1994
Publisher
Pages
688p. ; 20cm.
Description
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 - from Amzon
Number of Copies
1
