by Alex Haley, David Stevens · Grijalbo · tapa dura · ISBN 9788425325991
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«Queen» is the historical novel by Alex Haley and David Stevens, published by Grijalbo in hardcover (803 pages, in Spanish).
The novel continues the family saga of Roots and focuses on Queen, daughter of an Alabama landowner and a slave raised as part of the family. When her father dies, Queen must leave her home and find her place in the American South, where her mixed-race status confronts her with discrimination and a struggle for her identity.
The Spanish translation is by Diana Falcón Zás; the original was titled Alex Haley's Queen and this edition is from 1994.
Fans of historical fiction and family sagas set in the American South.
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.
