![]() ![]() Since then, she's written eight more, three of which have been short-listed for England's prestigious Booker Prize, and one of which, Offshore, won. Penelope Fitzgerald wrote her first novel 20 years ago, at the age of 59. "synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title. an original masterpiece.” -Hermione Lee, Financial Times The irrationality 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 unique to the art of Penelope Fitzgerald. Their brilliant young Fritz, betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard? How can this be? ![]() It is an attachment that shocks his family and friends. Fritz seeks his father’s permission to wed his “heart's heart,” his “spirit's guide”-a plain, simple child named Sophie von Kühn. 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. The Blue Flower is set in the age of Goethe, in the small towns and great universities of late eighteenth-century Germany. Fitzgerald’s greatest triumph.” - New York Times Book Review ![]()
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