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An edition of The Hunger Games (2008)

The Hunger Games

1st ed.

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  • ★★★★ 4.1 (406 ratings) ·
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  • 276 Currently reading
  • 675 Have read

Could you survive on your own, in the wild, with everyone out to make sure you don't live to see the morning?

In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives alone with her mother and younger sister, regards it as a death sentence when she is forced to represent her district in the Games. But Katniss has been close to dead before - and survival, for her, is second nature. Without really meaning to, she becomes a contender. But if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Collins delivers equal parts suspense and philosophy, adventure and romance, in this searing novel set in a future with unsettling parallels to our present.

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Scholastic Press
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English
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374

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Panem, The Capitol, The Pentagon, District 12, The nation of Panem and District 12

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Açlık Oyunları 1
Oct 18, 2015, Dex Yayinevi
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The Hunger Games
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Die Tribute von Panem: Tödliche Spiele
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Hunger Games
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The Hunger Games
2009-09, Scholastic Inc.
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2008-10, Scholastic Press
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Book Details

First Sentence

"When I wake up, the other side of the bed is cold."

Table of Contents

Part one : The tributes
Part two : The games
Part three : The victor

Edition Notes

Published in
New York
Series
The Hunger Games
Genre
Fiction
Copyright Date
2008

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
[Fic]
Library of Congress
PZ7.C6837 Hun 2008, PZ7.C6837Hun 2008

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
374 p.
Number of pages
374
Dimensions
22 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL22549594M
ISBN 10
0439023483
ISBN 13
9780439023481
LCCN
2007039987
OCLC/WorldCat
181516677, 654951019, 678816375, 802081482, 999475842, 1057000484, 974133020, 924443777
Amazon ID (ASIN)
0439023483
Library Thing
4979986
Wikidata
Q69892144
Goodreads
62092524

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Work Description

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.

The book received critical acclaim from major reviewers and authors. It was praised for its plot and character development. 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.

The Hunger Games was first published in hardcover on September 14, 2008, by Scholastic, featuring a cover designed by Tim O'Brien.

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