Roots by Alex Haley

Roots by Alex HaleyWinner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book AwardTracing 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.

'From the master of the absurd

the book provides a glimpse into the mind

stalkers and all the glitzy paraphernalia of being a public figure

and complexity

the unadorned thirteen chapters allow readers to form their own first impressions of the ancient words of wisdom ascribed to Sun-tzu

Margaret Atwood has always been fascinated with SF

worst of all

remains the most unflinching

In The Scientific Indian

As India – and Islamic culture – hardens

Hidden behind her black floor-length veil

Holocaust survivor Eddie Jaku made a vow to smile every day and now believes he is the ‘happiest man on earth’