Book Title:THE HUNGER GAME
Author: SUZANNE COLLINS
File Type: pdf
File Size : 1.16 MB
Pages: 367
Description from wikipedia:
The Hunger Games is a 2008science fiction novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice of16-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the dystopian,post-apocaly pticnation of Panem in North America.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.The book received mostly positive feedback from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its story line and character development, though some reviewers have noted similarities between Collins' book and Koushun Takami's Battle Royale(1999). In writing The Hunger Games, Collins drew upon Greek mythology, Roman gladiatorial games, and contemporary reality television for thematic content. The novel won many awards, including the California Young Reader Medal, and was named one of Publishers Weekly's "Best Books of the Year" in 2008.
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