If you know Suzanne Collins’s dystopian Hunger Games trilogy, you know Coriolanus Snow. He’s Katniss Everdeen’s nemesis and the tyrannical president of Panem, where every year 24 kids from the districts are selected to fight to a televised death.
He’s a sadist who smells of roses and has a talent for crushing both spirits and heartbeats. In short, he keeps the bloodbath going.Do you need to know more?
With the publishing odds ever in her favor (the Hunger Games trilogy has sold more than 100 million copies), Collins believes you do.
In her new book, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” a prequel to “The Hunger Games,” she looks at the man (OK, the teenager) who became the monster.To do that, Collins takes readers back 64 years before
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