In eighteenth-century Germany the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his fathers permission to wed his true philosophy -- a plain simple child named Sophie The attachment shocks his family and friends This brilliant young man betrothed to a twelve-year-old dullard How can it be A literary sensation and a bestseller in England and the United States The Blue Flower was one of eleven books- and the only paperback- chosen as an Editors Choice by the New York Times Book Review The National Book Critics Circle Award Winner in Fiction
