The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a 2008  science fiction novel by American writer  Suzanne Collins. It is written  in the voice of 16-year-old  Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the  post-apocalyptic nation of  Panem, where the countries of North America once existed. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12–18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death.

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