La Mariee De Hong Kong / L'Appel De La Passion

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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