Алекс Хейли — библиография

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

Discover Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning search for his family's origins: a powerful memoir, a history of slavery and a landmark in African-American literature. Tracing his ancestry through six generations of architects, lawyers, blacksmiths, farmers, freedmen and slaves, Alex Haley’s research took him back to Africa and a sixteen-year-old youth named Kunta Kinte. Torn from his homeland and brought to the slave markets of the New World, re-imagining Kunta’s journey would allow Haley to explore his family’s deep and distant past. ‘A gripping mixture of urban confessional and political manifesto, Roots not only inspired a generation of…

«Корни» - одна из самых необычных и влиятельных книг американской литературы. Перед читателями разворачивается драматичная история шести поколений одной семьи, среди которых рабы и освобожденные, фермеры и кузнецы, музыканты и бизнесмены, адвокаты и архитекторы…и один автор. Сразу после выхода "Корни" стали национальным и международным феноменом. Но и спустя 40 лет роман продолжает увлекать читателей своим повествовательным драйвом и исключительной эмоциональной силой.

Published posthumously, The Autobiography of Malcolm X is an account of the life of Malcolm X, born Malcolm Little (1925–1965), who became a human rights activist. Beginning with his mother's pregnancy, the book describes Malcolm's childhood in Michigan, the death of his father under questionable circumstances, and his mother's deteriorating mental health that resulted in her commitment to a psychiatric hospital. Little's young adulthood in Boston and New York City is covered, as well as his involvement in organized crime. This led to his arrest and subsequent eight- to ten-year prison sentence, of which he served six-and-a-half years…

Автобиографическая книга афроамериканского исламского духовного лидера, революционера и борца за гражданские права Малкольма Икса, написанная при участии журналиста Алекса Хейли и изданная в 1965 году. Автобиография была написана Хейли на основе серии интервью в период между 1963 и 1965 годами, когда Малкольм Икс был убит. Эпилог книги был написан уже после убийства, в нём Хейли описал процесс их сотрудничества и события в конце жизни Малкольма Икса.