The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
Suzanne Collins
Could you survive on your own in the wild, with every one 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 steps forward to take her sister's place 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 weight survival against humanity and life against love.
Publication Year: 2008
rereading this after finishing The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes makes you understand how hung up snow is on his past and how much cruelty he is capable of
1I’m just now finding out that Suzanne Collin’s wrote for Clifford’s Puppy Days and Little Bear (among many other children’s shows). What do you mean she wrote some of my childhood comfort shows and then later a series that wrecked that comfort?😭
4fun fact: in the Italian translation, Glimmer's name was translated as Lux. I get why, even if I do not agree with changing names like that, since Lux means light in Italian (it's luce in italian). I didn't remember this at all. Maybe because the last time I reread this I read it in english.
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