The Hunger Games is a 2008
science fiction novel by the American writer
Suzanne Collins. It is written
in the voice of 16-year-old
Katniss Everdeen, who lives in the
dystopian,
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 to the death.