{"product_id":"sanderling","title":"Sanderling","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781917378055\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2026\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: The Indigo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe past lies before us as a foreign, distant land.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSanderling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cb\u003eis a personal journey of exploration into the past, and the fascinating world of Florens Christian Rang (1864-1924), written by his great grand-daughter Anne Weber, one of Germany's leading contemporary authors.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRang, whom Weber nicknames Sanderling after the darting shorebird, began as a Protestant pastor stationed near Poznan in modern-day Poland, then part of Prussia. The church, which he subsequently abandoned, had a mission to 'Germanise' the local population. Weber draws parallels between this apparently benign ambition and the subsequent murderous intent of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter his apostasy Sanderling became friends with several great early-twentieth-century thinkers, including Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Martin Buber. It was during this time he joined a group of writers, artists and philosophers with whom he hoped to create a utopian society. Later on, his own son Weber's grandfather became a Nazi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnne Weber traces the contradictions and crises, the reckonings and departures of her great-grandfather by deciphering his letters and diaries, and travelling in his footsteps to Poland. Through the thicket of time and research, complex questions arise: how do you live with a history that you can't escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago? And what is it like today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith literary and philosophical references including Sontag, Sebald and Nietzsche, Weber combines her family history with a broader examination of ethics and morality to create a travel diary through time, reaching back t\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ALLIANCE DIST - SF","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41858901344389,"sku":"PR431934","price":54.2,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TTG2OPAMZV9H.jpg?v=1789093750","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/sanderling","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}