Description:
It is 1989, the height of Japanese economic power, and a young American businessman in Tokyo is facing a prison sentence for a crime he did not commit.
Brief description: R. Sebastian Bennett was born in New York City and grew up in California. He attended Columbia University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, where he was awarded a Doctoral Regents Fellowship. Bennett worked as an Advertising Representative in Tokyo in the late 1980s. Later, he founded the literary journal, THE SOUTHERN ANTHOLOGY and taught Fiction Writing at UCLA, University of Louisiana, and Muskingum University, where he directed the Creative Writing Program. Bennett's work is widely published in magazines, including The Brooklyn Review, Columbia Journal, Fiction International, Los Angeles Review, New World Writing, Paris Transcontinental-Sorbonne (FRANCE), The Bombay Review and Modern Literature (INDIA), The Galway Review (IRELAND), Alécart (ROMANIA), and Equus (ENGLAND), and many others.
Review Quotes:
"Clever, insightful and beautifully written ... Mr. Bennett knows his Japanese characters as well as he knows his American hero, and THE FINAL YEN is a book both charming and moving." -T. Coraghessan Boyle, Author of EAST IS EAST and OUTSIDE LOOKING IN
"In the context of a compelling story, R. Sebastian Bennett demystifies much of the modern Japanese social insularity and business philosophy, while engaging readers in a seriocomical narrative of a youthful, American 'salaryman' in Tokyo. This is simultaneously a book about Japan, and about American ideals of independence and intellectual freedom. THE FINAL YEN is smart, witty, and informative." -Harold Jaffe, Author of REVOLUTIONARY BRAIN and PARIS 60; Editor of Fiction International