{"product_id":"berlin-childhood-around-1900-by-walter-benjamin-9781836740148","title":"Berlin Childhood around 1900","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCompleted in exile in Paris, as the Second World War was dawning, Walter Benjamin looks back at the city of his birth at the beginning of the century. \u003cem\u003eBerlin Childhood around 1900\u003c\/em\u003e is both a sensory memoir of childhood as well as a tour of the iconic spaces of the city. These are expeditions into the depths of memory, moving through vignettes of domestic settings and classrooms, city squares, parks, and streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe memories of childhood merge with a city that is about to disappear into darkness. As his friend, Adorno, wrote, the work is \"illuminated by lightning flashes of immediate remembrance... the images this book unearths and brings strangely near are not idyllic and not contemplative. Over them lies the shadow of the Third Reich. And through them dreamily runs a shudder at the long forgotten.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47340644466924,"sku":"9781836740148","price":36.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/26472093482841.jpg?v=1772163155","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/berlin-childhood-around-1900-by-walter-benjamin-9781836740148","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}