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product_id: 75819806
title: "Roots"
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# 4.5-star rating from 3,473 readers BBC drama adaptation Pulitzer Prize-winning legacy Roots

**Price:** MX$701
**Availability:** ✅ In Stock

## Summary

> 📖 Unlock your roots, embrace the story that defines a legacy.

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- **What is this?** Roots
- **How much does it cost?** MX$701 with free shipping
- **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship
- **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.mx](https://www.desertcart.mx/products/75819806-roots)

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- Customers looking for quality international products

## Why This Product

- Free international shipping included
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## Key Features

- • **Cultural Touchstone:** A must-read that connects you to heritage and identity like never before.
- • **Deep Ancestral Journey:** Trace six generations from Africa to America in gripping detail.
- • **Star-Studded BBC Drama:** Watch history come alive with Forest Whitaker and Laurence Fishburne.
- • **Critically Acclaimed & Loved:** Join thousands who rated it 4.5 stars for its powerful storytelling.
- • **Timeless Pulitzer Prize Winner:** Experience the profound narrative that shaped generations.

## Overview

Roots is a Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning historical novel tracing six generations of African American ancestry, from slavery to freedom. Adapted into a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker and Laurence Fishburne, it holds a 4.5-star rating from over 3,400 readers and ranks among the top historical fiction books, making it an essential cultural and literary experience.

## Description

Now a major BBC drama starring Forest Whitaker, Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Laurence Fishburne 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

Review: Extraordinary find. - A book you must read. The author’s words flowing like a smooth river into your minds. Thoroughly enjoyed.
Review: The more blackness a women has the more beautiful she is - This is a must read novel, the most beautiful experience,still I haven't completed reading this novel but still in the initial chapters itself I just fell in love with this novel.

## Features

- Physical Condition: No Defects

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #6,575 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #148 in Historical Fiction (Books) #333 in Classic Fiction (Books) #451 in Contemporary Fiction (Books) |
| Customer Reviews | 4.5 out of 5 stars 3,473 Reviews |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Extraordinary find.
*by R***O on 24 September 2025*

A book you must read. The author’s words flowing like a smooth river into your minds. Thoroughly enjoyed.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The more blackness a women has the more beautiful she is
*by A***R on 1 July 2025*

This is a must read novel, the most beautiful experience,still I haven't completed reading this novel but still in the initial chapters itself I just fell in love with this novel.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Too tiny sized print
*by D***A on 15 June 2024*

Print way too small for comfortable reading.....too much of a strain on the eyes....a larger print would be so welcome...

## Frequently Bought Together

- Roots
- The Book of Negroes: The award-winning classic bestseller

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*Last updated: 2026-07-07*