The traitor Baru Cormorant

"Baru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people--even her soul. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her...

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Main Author: Dickinson, Seth
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Tom Doherty Associates, 2015.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Dickinson, Seth. Masquerade series ; 1.
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Summary:"Baru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people--even her soul. When the Empire of Masks conquers her island home, overwrites her culture, criminalizes her customs, and murders one of her fathers, Baru vows to swallow her hate, join the Empire's civil service, and claw her way high enough to set her people free. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion. Drawn by the intriguing duchess Tain Hu into a circle of seditious dukes, Baru may be able to use her position to help. As she pursues a precarious balance between the rebels and a shadowy cabal within the Empire, she orchestrates a do-or-die gambit with freedom as the prize. But the cost of winning the long game of saving her people may be far greater than Baru imagines"--Provided by publisher.
Physical Description:399 pages : map ; 25 cm
ISBN:9780765380722 (hardback)
0765380722 (hardback)
Author Notes:SETH DICKINSON's short fiction has appeared in Analog , Asimov's , Clarkesworld , Lightspeed , Strange Horizons , Beneath Ceaseless Skies, among others. He is an instructor at the Alpha Workshop for Young Writers, winner of the 2011 Dell Magazines Award, and a lapsed student of social neuroscience. He lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Traitor Baru Cormorant is his first novel.