The Blue Flower -- Penelope Fitzgerald

<strong>A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald's crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love for the simple Sophie.</strong><br/><br/><em>The Blue Flower</em> is set in the age of Goethe among the small towns and great universities of 18th-century Germany. It tells the true story of Friedrich von Hardenberg, a passionate, impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the romantic poet Novalis. Fritz seeks his father's permission to wed his heart's heart, his spirit's guide--a plain, simple child named Sophievon Kühn. It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be?<br/><br/>Their rationality of love, the transfiguration of the commonplace, the clarity of purpose that comes with knowing one's own fate-- these are the themes of this beguiling novel, themes treated with a mix of wit, grace, and mischievous humor.<br/><br/>"An extraordinary imagining . . . an original masterpiece."--<em>Financial Times</em><br/><br/>An astonishing book...Fitzgerald's greatest triumph.--<em>New York Times Book Review</em><br><br><b>Author:</b> Penelope Fitzgerald<br><b>Publisher:</b> Harper Paperbacks<br><b>Published:</b> 10/14/2014<br><b>Pages:</b> 320<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.55lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.90d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9780544359451<