The Invention of Curried Sausage

The Invention of Curried Sausage is an ingenious, revealing, and delightful novel about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food. Uwe Timm has heard claims that currywurst first appeared in Berlin in the 1950s, but he seems to recall having eaten it much earlier, as a boy in his native Hamburg, at a stand owned and operated by Lena Brücker. He decides to check it out. Although the discovery of curried sausage is eventually explained, it is its prehistory - about how Lena Brücker met, seduced and held captive a German deserter in Hamburg, in April, 1945, just before the war's end-that is the tastiest part. Timm draws gorgeous details from Lena's fine-grained recollections, and the pleasure these provide her and the reader supply the tale's real charm.

Author: Uwe Timm
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Published: 10/17/1997
Pages: 218
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.02h x 4.96w x 0.61d
ISBN13: 9780811213684
ISBN10: 0811213684
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary