Последние издания книг Алекса Хейли

Пулитцеровская премия 1977 года.
Переведено на 37 языков.
Две экранизации (1977, 2016).
1,5 млн экземпляров продано в течение первых 7 месяцев продаж.
Финальная серия сериала, снятого по книге, собрала у экранов в 2 раза больше зрителей, чем финальная серия «Друзей».

Когда Алекс Хейли был ребенком, бабушка рассказывала ему истории об их семье. Эти истории начинались двести лет назад с человека, которого она звала «африканцем». Его похитили из родной деревни и загнали на борт корабля, направлявшегося в колониальную Америку.
Повзрослев, Хейли провел двенадцать лет в поисках источников, которые могли бы подтвердить подлинность рассказов бабушки. В ходе генеалогических исследований он обнаружил имя «африканца». Его звали Кунта Кинте, и с его истории начинается 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, адвокаты и архитекторы... и один автор.

Об авторе

Алекс Хейли родился в 1921 году в Итаке, штат Нью-Йорк, в семье преподавателей. С 1939 по 1959 год служил в Береговой охране, после чего работал в журнале Reader’s Digest. В 1976 году Хейли издал автобиографический роман «Корни», который моментально прославил его на всю страну. Незадолго до смерти писатель закончил второй роман, который вышел в свет в 1993 году под названием «Королева Алекса Хейли».

Отзывы
«"Корни" — важнейший роман о судьбе чернокожих в Америке, недостающее звено между "Хижиной дяди Тома" и текстами Кендрика Ламара». — Афиша

«Смелый и необычный блокбастер». — Newsweek

«"Корни" были хитом, потому что никто никогда не читал и не видел ничего подобного». — New York Times

«Символическая хроника одиссеи афроамериканцев от африканского континента до страны, которую они не выбирали». — Washington Post

«Корни» – одна из самых необычных и влиятельных книг американской литературы. Перед слушателями 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 многих своим повествовательным драйвом и исключительной эмоциональной силой.

"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.

Autobiography of Malcolm X

Through a life of passion and struggle, Malcolm X became one of the most influential figures of the 20th Century. In this riveting account, he tells of his journey from a prison cell to Mecca, describing his transition from hoodlum to Muslim minister. Here, the man who called himself "the angriest Black man in America" relates how his conversion to true Islam helped him confront his rage and recognize the brotherhood of all mankind. An established classic of modern America, "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" was hailed by the New York Times as "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." Still extraordinary, still important, this electrifying story has transformed Malcom X's life into his legacy. The strength of his words, the power of his ideas continue to resonate more than a generation after they first appeared.

Malcolm X's The Autobiography of Malcolm X was written in collaboration with Alex Haley, author of Roots, and includes an introduction by Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic, in Penguin Modern Classics. From hustling, drug addiction and armed violence in America's black ghettos Malcolm X turned, in a dramatic prison conversion, to the puritanical fervour of the Black Muslims. As their spokesman he became identified in the white press as a terrifying teacher of race hatred; but to his direct audience, the oppressed American blacks, he brought hope and self-respect. This autobiography (written with Alex Haley) reveals his quick-witted integrity, usually obscured by batteries of frenzied headlines, and the fierce idealism which led him to reject both liberal hypocrisies and black racialism. Vilified by his critics as an anti-white demagogue, Malcolm X gave a voice to unheard African-Americans, bringing them pride, hope and fearlessness, and remains an inspirational and controversial figure. Malcolm X (1925-65), born Malcolm Little in Omaha, and also known as El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, lost both his parents at a young age. Leaving school early, he soon became part of Harlem's underworld, and in 1946 he was sentenced to ten years' imprisonment. It was in prison that Malcolm X converted to Islam. Paroled in 1952, he became an outspoken defender of Muslim doctrines, formed the Organization of Afro-American Unity in 1963, and had received considerable publicity by the time of his assassination in 1965. If you enjoyed The Autobiography of Malcolm X, you might like Nelson Mandela's No Easy Walk to Freedom, also available in Penguin Modern Classics. 'This extraordinary autobiography is a brilliant, painful, important book' The New York Times

Roots begins with a birth in an African village in 1750, and ends two centuries later at a funeral in Arkansas. 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.

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

Malcolm X's searing memoir belongs on the small shelf of great autobiographies. The reasons are many: the blistering honesty with which he recounts his transformation from a bitter, self-destructive petty criminal into an articulate political activist, the continued relevance of his militant analysis of white racism, and his emphasis on self-respect and self-help for African Americans. And there's the vividness with which he depicts black popular culture--try as he might to criticize those lindy hops at Boston's Roseland dance hall from the perspective of his Muslim faith, he can't help but make them sound pretty wonderful. These are but a few examples. The Autobiography of Malcolm X limns an archetypal journey from ignorance and despair to knowledge and spiritual awakening. When Malcolm tells coauthor Alex Haley, "People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book," he voices the central belief underpinning every attempt to set down a personal story as an example for others. Although many believe his ethic was directly opposed to Martin Luther King Jr.'s during the civil rights struggle of the '60s, the two were not so different. Malcolm may have displayed a most un-Christian distaste for loving his enemies, but he understood with King that love of God and love of self are the necessary first steps on the road to freedom. --Wendy Smith

When he was a boy in Henning, Tennessee, Alex Haley's grandmother used to tell him stories about their family—stories that went back to her grandparents, and their grandparents, down through the generations all the way to a man she called "the African." She said he had lived across the ocean near what he called the "Kamby Bolongo" and had been out in the forest one day chopping wood to make a drum when he was set upon by four men, beaten, chained and dragged aboard a slave ship bound for Colonial America.

Still vividly remembering the stories after he grew up and became a writer, Haley began to search for documentation that might authenticate the narrative. It took ten years and a half a million miles of travel across three continents to find it, but finally, in an astonishing feat of genealogical detective work, he discovered not only the name of "the African"--Kunta Kinte—but the precise location of Juffure, the very village in The Gambia, West Africa, from which he was abducted in 1767 at the age of sixteen and taken on the Lord Ligonier to Maryland and sold to a Virginia planter.

Haley has talked in Juffure with his own African sixth cousins. On September 29, 1967, he stood on the dock in Annapolis where his great-great-great-great-grandfather was taken ashore on September 29, 1767. Now he has written the monumental two-century drama of Kunta Kinte and the six generations who came after him—slaves and freedmen, farmers and blacksmiths, lumber mill workers and Pullman porters, lawyers and architects—and one author.

But Haley has done more than recapture the history of his own family. As the first black American writer to trace his origins back to their roots, he has told the story of 25,000,000 Americans of African descent. He has rediscovered for an entire people a rich cultural heritage that slavery took away from them, along with their names and their identities. But Roots speaks, finally, not just to blacks, or to whites, but to all people and all races everywhere, for the story it tells is one of the most eloquent testimonials ever written to the indomitability of the human spirit.

If there was any one man who articulated the anger, the struggle, and the beliefs of African Americans in the 1960s, that man was Malxolm X. His AUTOBIOGRAPHY is now an established classic of modern America, a book that expresses like none other the crucial truth about our times. "Extraordinary. A brilliant, painful, important book." TEH NEW YORKTIMES