Roots
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- a long novel (1976) by the US writer Alex Haley, for which he received a special Pulitzer Prize. The story, based on Haley's research into his own family's history, is about an African-American family of who were enslaved. A television version (1977) ran for eight nights on ABC and had an audience of about 100 million, the largest ever. It received nine Emmy awards.
美国作家亚历克斯·黑利的长篇小说（1976），他因此获得普利策特别奖。这个故事基于海利对自己家族历史的研究，讲述了一个被奴役的非裔美国家庭的故事。电视版（1977 年）在美国广播公司 (ABC) 播出八晚，拥有约 1 亿观众，为有史以来最多的一次。它获得了九项艾美奖。