num_pages: 48
description: Beginning with his father's death in 1989 and continuing through 1993, Shuntaro Tanikawa began to make a sustained sober poetic assessment of his personal experience and became in the process more 'personal'--but never maudlin. In The Naif, we are made privy to details in the career of a human being as he moves from one stage of maturity to another.
language: English
title: Naif
titlecomplete: Naif
ratings_count: 4
publisher: Katydid Books