ISTD (Student Assessment Scheme / Open|Close 2023 Brief)
DETAILS
Book
Format: Din A5
(148 x 210 mm)
Signatures: 9x16=144 pages
Material: A4 recycled paper 120gsm & tracing Paper: 90gsm
Cover
Hardcover: 360gsm board
Cloth: Canvas 100% cotton
Title: Embroidered with black torzal thread 100% polyester
Exposed smyth sewn binding
DESCRIPTION
Roots: The Saga of an American Family, 1976
Nearly 50 years after “Roots” swept the nation of America, its impact is still keenly felt. In the aftermath of the tumultuous 60s and in the shadow of the civil rights movement, it changed the way many Americans looked at themselves—and each other—forever.
It started a conversation, which in these still-fractious times, may be as necessary and critical as ever.
Through the story of one family—his family—the author, Alex Haley, brings to life the two-century story of Kunta Kinte, captured and sold into slavery in Africa, transported to the Unites States, and the six generations who came after him.
2 histories, 2 timelines
On one side, the personal story of a family line of slaves, their experiences, pain, suffering and opportunities.
On the other side, a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal, began as a slave society.
The work forcefully shows relationships between generations and between races.
7 chapters
2 layers of information
Genealogical tree