SEPTEMBER 2010 website: Els jocs de la fam

A future world light years away from utopia where children and adolescents, "the tributes", are sent by a state called Capitol to cruel televised games in which only one can remain. Either they kill or they are killed. This is the basis with which the writer and screenwriter Suzanne Collins, one of the 100 most influential people of 2010 according to Time magazine, provided a trilogy, blessed by critics and readers, which has become more adult book by book and which is following in the footsteps of Harry Potter and Twilight as a mass phenomenon.

The latest installment of The Hunger Games arrived last week in bookstores in the United States, preceded by sales of 4.400.000 copies of the first two volumes (including Canada) and is already competing for first place among Amazon's best sellers. with Freedom, the acclaimed new book by Jonathan Franzen.

The outcome arrives tomorrow in Spain with the title of The Bird of Revolt in Catalan (Estrella Polar) and Mockingjay in Spanish (Molino) and today, in an atypical and pioneering promotion formula, a consequence of the era of interactivity, in the Web 2.0 will take place for three hours - from five to eight in the afternoon - an online presentation of the book at www.elsjocsdelafam.cat.