Set in the small provincial and university towns between Leipzig and Berlin at the very end of the 18th century, this novel s central character is the great romantic philosopher Novalis. Fitzgerald won the Booker Prize in 1979 for Offshore . She has also been shortlisted several times. synopsis may belong to another edition of this title.
Review:
‘The Blue Flower is a model of what historical fiction can be at its best – when the radical otherness of other times is not merely acknowledged but made integral to the fictional experience. It s also Fitzgerald at her best – elegant, inventive, hilarious, unsparing. I adore this book.’ Jonathan Franzen