The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a young adult novel by American television writer and novelist Suzanne Collins. It was first published on September 14, 2008, in hardcover, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien. 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, holds hegemony over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games are an annual event in which one boy and one girl aged 12 to 18 from each of the twelve districts surrounding the Capitol are selected by lottery to compete in a televised battle to the death until only one person remains.

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