num_pages: 600
description: This monumental Pulitzer Prize-winning saga and iconic bestseller is available for the first time on audio. Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. In that time span, an unforgettable cast of men, women, and children come to life, many of them based on the people from Alex Haley's own family tree. Presented unabridged on 24 CDs.
language: English
title: Roots
titlecomplete: Roots
characters: George Lincoln Rockwell, Alex Haley, Kunta Kinte
genres: Fiction, Historical, Race, Audiobook, Literature, Classics, Novels, Historical Fiction, Africa, African American
ratings_count: 158402
places: Gambia, The United States of America
awards: awardedAt: 252489600000
name: ASJA Outstanding Book Award, awardedAt: 1199174400000
name: Audie Award
category: Nonfiction, awardedAt: 252489600000
name: Premio Bancarella, awardedAt: 189331200000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: General Nonfiction, awardedAt: 220953600000
name: Lillian Smith Book Award
publisher: Vanguard Press