![]() ![]() The Traitor Baru Cormorant is the critically-acclaimed debut novel from Seth Dickinson, one of the. 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.īut the cost of winning the long game of saving her people may be far greater than Baru imagines. This is book number 1 in the The Masquerade series. Drawn by the intriguing duchess Tain Hu into a circle of seditious dukes, Baru may be able to use her position to help. Shes fine sending her loved ones to their death. ![]() ![]() shes fine with sending entire island nations into famine and death. Sent as an Imperial agent to distant Aurdwynn, another conquered country, Baru discovers it's on the brink of rebellion. Baru is (for now) fine with subjecting the Oriati to plantations and incrastic schools, Baru is fine with rebellion and whole-sale slaughter. 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. In Seth Dickinson's highly-anticipated debut The Traitor Baru Cormorant, a young woman from a conquered people tries to transform an empire in this richly imagined geopolitical fantasy.īaru Cormorant believes any price is worth paying to liberate her people-even her soul. ![]()
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