Roots Audiobook by Alex Haley

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/audiobook/52/ to download full audiobooks of your choice for free. Title: Roots Subtitle: The Saga of an American Family Author: Alex Haley Narrator: Avery Brooks Format: Unabridged Length: 30 hrs and 7 mins Language: English Release date: 08-30-07 Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc. Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3798 votes Genres: Classics, Nonfiction Publisher's Summary: Audie Award Winner, Non-fiction, 2008 It begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. And 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. When Alex was a boy growing up in Tennessee, his grandmother used to tell him stories about their family, stories that went way back to a man she called the African who was taken aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America. As an adult, Alex spent 12 years searching for documentation that might authenticate what his grandmother had told him. In an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered the name of the "African" - Kunta Kinte - as well as the exact location of the village in West Africa from where he was abducted in 1767. Roots is based on the facts of his ancestry, and the six generations of people - slaves and freedmen, farmers and lawyers, an architect, teacher, and one acclaimed author - descended from Kunta Kinte. Critic Reviews: "Being the consummate actor, [narrator Avery] Brooks has immersed himself into the role of narrator. In fact, it is difficult to describe what Avery Brooks does in this audiobook. He neither narrates nor performs, rather, he conjures. He brings the plethora of characters to life as memory, as history, as the pawns of diaspora. His narration begins in reverential tones as an homage to a literary masterwork, yet he ends it as a roar against racism." (AudioFile)