by Alex Haley, David Stevens · Círculo de Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788422652656
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«Queen» is the historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardcover (878 pages, in Spanish).
Alex Haley reconstructs the life of his paternal grandmother, Queen, daughter of a slave and her master, from her grandfather's Ireland to the cotton plantations of Alabama. Between slavery and the Civil War, the novel portrays her struggle to find her place in a racist society, with themes of identity, love and survival.
The novel was originally published as «Alex Haley's Queen» and was completed by David Stevens.
For readers of historical fiction and family narrative, especially those interested in American slavery and the Civil War.
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley was an American writer and the author of the 1976 book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. ABC adapted the book as a television miniseries of the same name and aired it in 1977 to a record-breaking audience of 130 million viewers. In the United States, the book and miniseries raised the public awareness of black American history and inspired a broad interest in genealogy and family history. Haley's first book was The Autobiography of Malcolm X, published in 1965, a collaboration through numerous lengthy interviews with Malcolm X.
