{"product_id":"9781917378055","title":"Sanderling","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Weber, Anne\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eGermany\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished on 4 November 2025 by The Indigo Press in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 240 pages\u003cbr\u003e205 x 139 x 25 | 306g\u003cp\u003eHow do you live with a history you can’t escape? What did it mean to be German one hundred years ago? And what is it like today? These are the questions at the heart of Sanderling, a classic work of literary inquiry by Anne Weber, one of Germany’s leading contemporary authors.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Weber embarks on a personal journey into the past to uncover the life of her great-grandfather Florens Christian Rang (1864–1924), whom she nicknames Sanderling after the darting shorebird. A Protestant pastor in Prussian-ruled Poland, Rang served a church whose mission to 'Germanise' the local population would later be echoed in the murderous ambitions of the Third Reich.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e After leaving the church, Sanderling moved in the circles of Walter Benjamin, Hugo von Hofmannsthal, and Martin Buber. He joined a group of writers, artists, and philosophers who dreamed of a utopian society, even as one of his sons, Weber’s grandfather, would go on to become a Nazi.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e By deciphering his letters and diaries, and travelling in his footsteps to Poland, Weber traces the contradictions and crises, the reckonings and departures of a complex legacy. With 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 to understand her ancestors.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Weber, Anne","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52305307173048,"sku":"9781917378055","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0509\/1953\/8872\/files\/9781917378055.jpg?v=1763656783","url":"https:\/\/octoberbooks.org\/products\/9781917378055","provider":"October Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}