Book of the day: Suzanne Collins- the Hunger Games
Imagine a society in which the strongest has power over the weakest or don’t imagine just read. The Hunger Games is a 2008 dystopian novel by the American writer Suzanne Collins. It is written in the voice 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
. 16-year-old Katniss Everdeen from District 12 volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games in place of her 12-year-old sister, Primrose. At the end of the game, Katniss changes the rule “to the death” and the change allows the tributes from the same district to win as a pair. The novel is the first in The Hunger Games trilogy; it is followed by sequels Catching Fire (2009) and Mockingjay (2010). The novel has been translated into 26 languages. In 2012, The Hunger Games film was released.