The Invention of Curried Sausage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780811213684)

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 Br?ker. He decides to check it out. Although the discovery of curried sausage is eventually explained, it is its prehistory - about how Lena Br?ker 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
ISBN-10: 0811213684
ISBN-13: 9780811213684
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Language: English
Published: 10/17/1997
Pages: 218
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 7.02h x 4.96w x 0.61d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 08/18/1997