num_pages: 480
description: In a world stripped bare of digital images and promotainment unveiled with the audiovisual overlay of the ImmaNet in an exposed world a naked world Amon Kenzaki awakens lost and alone. He must now travel deep into the District of Dreams in search of Anisha Birla the one person that might help him unravel the mystery of jubilee. But deprived of the apps and informational tools hes depended on his entire life traversing the largest bankdeath camp on Earth is no easy task.Inside an ephemeral labyrinth of slowly-dissolving disposable skyscrapers clogged to the limit with the bankdead masses Amon soon finds himself face to face with two dangerous groups: a luddite cult called the Borginans who preach bizarre superstitions about electronic banking and a supposedly humanitarian army called the Charity Brigade whose mandate of protecting the bankdead conceals opportunistic motives.Taking refuge in a hospital that strives to improve conditions in the camps Amon begins to work towards its cause and reconciles himself to his newfound poverty. But when political forces threaten the communitys existence and the lives of its members he is forced to team up with a vending-machine designer an Olympic runner a fertility researcher a corporate tycoon and many others to expose the heinous secret festering at the heart of the action-transaction market he once served.In book two of the Jubilee Cycle Eli K. P. William delves beneath the surface of his cyber-dystopian Tokyo to unearth the fate of outcasts trapped in its depths and shine a light on the financial obstacles blocking one individuals efforts to help them.
language: English
title: The Naked World
publisher: Talos