Roots

亚历克斯·哈利（Alex·Haley）：美国黑人作家，1921年8月11日生于纽约州的伊萨卡，1939-1959年在海岸警卫队服役，其间当过记者。1965年与人合写了黑人领袖马尔科姆·艾克斯的传记。在要找出黑人传统的欲望驱使下，他对冈比亚有关口头传说进行了调查研究，发现自己家族可追溯到七代之前的一个非洲人，他被作为奴隶于1767年运到安纳波利斯。哈利以大量史实为基础，增补一些细节，于1976年写出了长篇家史小说《根》。该书获1977年普利策特别奖，改编成电视连续剧上演后轰动全国。1992年2月10日逝世于西雅图。

出版者:Vanguard Press

作者:Alex Haley

页数:912

出版时间:2007-5-22

价格:USD 18.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9781593154493

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One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots , galvanized the nation, and created an extraordinary political, racial, social and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin . The book sold over one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. Roots opened up the minds of Americans of all colors and faiths to one of the darkest and most painful parts of America’s past.

Over the years, both Roots and Alex Haley have attracted controversy, which comes with the territory for trailblazing, iconic books, particularly on the topic of race. Some of the criticism results from whether Roots is fact or fiction and whether Alex Haley confused these two issues, a subject he addresses directly in the book. There is also the fact that Haley was sued for plagiarism when it was discovered that several dozen paragraphs in Roots were taken directly from a novel, The African, by Harold Courlander, who ultimately received a substantial financial settlement at the end of the case.

But none of the controversy affects the basic issue. Roots fostered a remarkable dialogue about not just the past, but the then present day 1970s and how America had fared since the days portrayed in Roots . Vanguard Press feels that it is important to publish Roots: The 30th Anniversary Edition to remind the generation that originally read it that there are issues that still need to be discussed and debated, and to introduce to a new and younger generation, a book that will help them understand, perhaps for the first time, the reality of what took place during the time of Roots .

读后感

来时一人，随后开枝散叶。来时牵挂着父母，随后有了更对的牵挂。 一个家族的生根发芽，需要每一代的努力。 一生真的很短暂。等到下一代走入舞台，上一代就落下了帷幕！ 每一代改变的是什么，只是生活方式的变化。想要自由，这是最基础的… 生活已不愁问题了，再开始谈作为！ 真...  

书中追溯自己祖先的一名黑人琨达.肯特的家族演变。 描写黑人由奴隶到拥有自己的土地，获得自由，开始了新的生活。 我喜欢其中琨达的运用生活中和在成人时学到的技能学习生存到坚持自由，追溯六代自己的祖先怎么从非洲到美国的。。。。。  

高三的时候逃课去北图，然后发现了这本书，可惜没读完。 上了大学之后才继续读下去，然后发现自己高三读的地方是整本书自己最喜欢的部分。 整本书来讲，非洲的描写实在很精彩，让我想起了凡尔纳写的十七岁的船长。

高三的时候逃课去北图，然后发现了这本书，可惜没读完。 上了大学之后才继续读下去，然后发现自己高三读的地方是整本书自己最喜欢的部分。 整本书来讲，非洲的描写实在很精彩，让我想起了凡尔纳写的十七岁的船长。

我不是第一次读小说《根》，记得早在八十年代初到九十年代初，这段时间国内电视台上有很多的美国电视联续剧放映，其中有很多的关于黑人的电视剧，记忆最深刻的就是这部《根》。 那时我还是个小学生，整天被功课和学习搞的晕头转向，或着是更多的被《神探亨特》之类的美国电...