The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes revisits the dystopian world of Panem — a North American country consisting of the wealthy Capitol and 12 poor districts — 64 years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Tenth Hunger Games. (Every year children from the districts are selected via a lottery system to fight in a compulsory, televised death match.) Author Suzanne Collins TODD PLITTOn returning to the familiar world of the first three books — The Hunger Games, Catching Fire and Mockingjay — the American author Suzanne Collins has said: “With this book, I wanted to explore the state of nature, who we are, and what we perceive is required for our survival. The reconstruction period ten years after the war, commonly…

Source: The Times January 22, 2020 06:11 UTC