The extraordinary account of Alex Haley's 12 year search for his family's origins. 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.
The much celebrated and most famous work of the writer Alex Haley that went on to win the Pulitzer Prize as well as inspire the seminal TV series.