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The Hunger Games

Suzanne Collins · 2008 · Short Story

Setting: post-apocalyptic future

Series: The Hunger Games — #1

Universe: The Hunger Games Universe

Synopsis

The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the perspective of 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the future, post-apocalyptic nation of Panem in North America. The Capitol, a highly advanced metropolis, exercises political control over the rest of the nation. The Hunger Games is 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 royale to the death.

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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: severe povertystarvationoppressioneffects of warself-sacrificeScience fictionApocalyptic fictionDystopian fictionFictionJuvenile works

isfdb_id: 872410

openlibrary_id: OL5735363W

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