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在这人吃人的世界,胜负就是生死。唯有爱上对手,才有存活的机会。
内容简介
Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be the United States. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When Kat's sister is chosen by lottery, Kat steps up to go in her place.
第七十四届饥饿游戏即将开始。
在荒蛮的野外环境中,每个人都想置你于死地,
你能靠自己的力量生存下来吗?
24人参加竞赛。只有一人能够存活。
抽签日那天,凯特尼斯的人生彻底改变了。
在未来的北美洲,帕纳姆国建立在一片废墟之上,它的中心凯匹特位于十二个区的中央。每年,十二个区都被迫向凯匹特送去年龄在12岁至18岁的少男少女“贡品”各一名,去参加饥饿游戏,这是一项残酷而可怕的生与死的竞赛,所有的贡品必须战斗到死,最后的幸存者就是胜者。
竞技场是经过人工布置的森林、荒原。竞赛中,猎杀、追踪、饥饿、伪装、智斗等生死存亡的时刻,都被电视现场直播到全国,每个人都必须观看,而且要当成节日一样庆祝。对于凯匹特,这是年度盛会,是一场游戏。对于其他十二区,是羞辱和折磨。
生存是16岁的凯特尼斯的本能,她依靠在十二区围栏外偷猎、采集野果勉强养活妈妈、妹妹和自己。当凯特尼斯代替被抽中的妹妹参加饥饿游戏时,她明白这对她可能意味着死亡。如果她想生存,她必须在人性与生存、生活与爱情之间做出选择。
在竞技场上,凯特尼斯机缘巧合被塑造成燃烧的女孩,又与本区的另一个贡品皮塔组成明星恋人备受瞩目。她很困惑,自己与皮塔的关系?她企图拯救其他竞赛者的生命,机智地应对游戏中出现的谜题,使她成了电视观众关注的中心。生死关头,她才发现爱情竟然也可以成为赢的策略。
凯特尼斯只有继续做她自己。那个倔强的女孩,她拒绝向游戏规则屈服,拒绝向死亡屈服,也拒绝向爱情屈服。她的拒绝会带来什么,未来又会怎样呢?
作者简介
Suzanne Collins is the author of the New York Times bestselling Underland Chronicles series, which has more than one million books in print and is available in seven foreign editions. In the award-winning The Hunger Games and Catching Fire, Collins continues to explore the effects of war and violence on those coming of age. The much-anticipated finale to The Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, will be published on August 24th, 2010. Also a successful writer for children's television, Collins lives with her family in Connecticut.
苏珊·柯林斯(Suzanne·Collins),1991年就开始儿童电视剧创作。她为“尼科罗登”儿童台创作的《克拉丽莎都知道》及《谢尔比·吴的神秘档案》系列剧,获得了艾美奖。她还著有畅销系列奇幻小说《地底纪事》(Underland Chronicles)。柯林斯对于《饥饿游戏》的写作动机是这样说的,那来自于她一天扫电视频道时得到的灵感,现实生活的真人秀竞赛和有关战争的报道“交织在一起,都令人感到不安”。这两者间的界线模糊了,我于是有了这个故事的构思。同时柯林斯也借鉴希腊神话中雅典王特修斯和牛头人身怪兽米诺塔的故事。这个神话讲的是因为先人的过失,雅典人每过一段时间就要送七个少男少女去克里特岛的迷宫中,献给牛头人身怪兽米诺塔。在柯林斯还是个小孩的时候,她就已经能感受到这个神话故事的残忍和无情。克里特岛传达出一个信息:“和我们作对我们会做出比杀死你们还残忍的事,我们会杀死你们的孩子们。”而事实就是这样,父母们只能无力的坐观。特修斯,雅典王的儿子,自愿前往克里特岛作祭司品。柯林斯觉得凯特尼斯就是未来版的特修斯。而书中的帕纳姆世界中特别是凯匹特城,都有很深的罗马文化的寓意。古罗马角斗士文化也给柯林斯带来了灵感。目前,柯林斯正忙于她的科幻系列作品《饥饿游戏》第三部的创作。在位于康涅狄格州的家中,她与家人和收留的两只野猫幸福地生活在一起。
精彩书评
In a not-too-distant future, the United States of America has collapsed, weakened by drought, fire, famine, and war, to be replaced by Panem, a country divided into the Capitol and 12 districts. Each year, two young representatives from each district are selected by lottery to participate in The Hunger Games. Part entertainment, part brutal intimidation of the subjugated districts, the televised games are broadcasted throughout Panem as the 24 participants are forced to eliminate their competitors, literally, with all citizens required to watch. When 16-year-old Katniss's young sister, Prim, is selected as the mining district's female representative, Katniss volunteers to take her place. She and her male counterpart, Peeta, the son of the town baker who seems to have all the fighting skills of a lump of bread dough, will be pitted against bigger, stronger representatives who have trained for this their whole lives. Collins's characters are completely realistic and sympathetic as they form alliances and friendships in the face of overwhelming odds; the plot is tense, dramatic, and engrossing. This book will definitely resonate with the generation raised on reality shows like 'Survivor' and 'American Gladiator.' Book one of a planned trilogy.
--Jane Henriksen Baird, Anchorage Public Library, AK
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