CASH CRASH JUBILEE

CASH CRASH JUBILEE takes place in a near future Tokyo, where every action, from blinking to sexual intercourse, is intellectual property owned by corporations who charge licensing fees.

The protagonist, Amon Kenzaki, is a Liquidator. His job is to capture bankrupt citizens, remove the implant (BodyBank) that allows them to participate in the action-transaction economy and banish them to "bankdeath camps." When Amon is asked to cash crash charismatic politician and model citizen Lawrence Barrow, he begins to ask dangerous questions about the system he's devoted his life to. Unlike traditional cyberpunk tales like Neuromancer and The Matrix where cyberspace is a separate world accessed through computer terminals, in this postcyberpunk world the digital and sensory perception have become one. Eli Kirzner is from Toronto but lives and works in Tokyo as a Japanese-English translator. He's been working with one of Japan's largest publishers (Shueisha) on their book translation initiative of THE JUBILEE CYCLE for the last two years, and is currently translating a best-selling literary novel by Naoki Prize-winning author Ryo Asai for publication in early 2015.