In eighteenth-century Germany, the impetuous student of philosophy who will later gain fame as the Romantic poet Novalis seeks his father's 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 Editor's Choice by the New York Times Book Review. The 1997 National Book Critics Circle Award Winner in Fiction.

故事发生在二十世纪初的英国剑桥镇，安吉尔斯学院的理学研究员费尔里在一次车祸中偶遇年轻的护士黛茜，并且爱上了她。他该如何面对这个“理性与信仰”交错撞击的年代？ 本书曾获得一九九○年英国文学布克奖的提名，并受到众多文学评论家和读者的高度评价。完美的叙事天分加上微妙的思考风格，造就了佩内洛普·菲兹杰拉德小说的精细沉稳，读来回味无穷。