{"product_id":"sanderling-9781917378055","title":"Sanderling","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow do you live with a history you cannot escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago--and what does it mean today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese questions lie at the heart of \u003ci\u003eSanderling\u003c\/i\u003e, a classic work of literary inquiry by Anne Weber, one of Germany's leading contemporary authors. In this deeply personal and intellectually rigorous book, Weber journeys into the past to uncover the life of her great-grandfather Florens Christian Rang (1864-1924), whom she nicknames \u003ci\u003eSanderling\u003c\/i\u003e after the darting shorebird.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA Protestant pastor in Prussian-ruled Poland, Rang served a church committed to the \"Germanization\" of the local population--an ideology that would later find horrific expression in the ambitions of the Third Reich. After leaving the church, Sanderling became part of the intellectual circles of Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Martin Buber, \u003cb\u003ej\u003c\/b\u003eoining writers, artists, and philosophers who dreamed of a utopian society. Yet his legacy is deeply conflicted: one of his sons--Weber's grandfather--would go on to become a Nazi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThrough close readings of letters and diaries and by traveling in her ancestor's footsteps across Poland, Weber traces a lineage marked by contradiction, moral crisis, reckoning, and rupture. Drawing on literary and philosophical touchstones such as Susan Sontag, W. G. Sebald, and Friedrich Nietzsche, she weaves family history with a searching examination of ethics, responsibility, and memory.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBoth a travel diary through time and a meditation on inherited guilt and identity, \u003ci\u003eSanderling\u003c\/i\u003e reaches back into the past to better understand the present--and the burdens it carries.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\"A searing examination of family and historical legacy, of how the past extends into the present.\"\u003c\/i\u003e -- \u003cb\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAnne Weber\u003c\/b\u003e is an author, and a translator into both French and German. She studied in Paris and has worked for several publishers. She has written a dozen books, each in a German and French version. Her book Epic Annette has been translated into 15 languages and won the 2020 German Book Prize. She has also been awarded the Annette-von-Droste-Hülshoff-Preis and the Joseph-Breitbach-Preis. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eNeil Blackadder\u003c\/b\u003e translates prose and drama from German and French. His translations have been staged in London, New York and other cities, and he has received grants from the NEA, PEN, and the Howard Foundation. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Indigo Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52078234370322,"sku":"9781917378055","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f53493a1-68c7-445f-9f14-87603fcf2b6a.jpg?v=1772537457","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/sanderling-9781917378055","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}