The Invention of Curried Sausage (Paperback)

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 Brucker. He decides to check it out. Although the discovery of curried sausage is eventually explained, it is its prehistory - about how Lena Brucker 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."

General

Imprint:	New Directions Publishing Corporation
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1998
First published:	1997
Authors:	Uwe Timm
Translators:	Leila Vennewitz
Dimensions:	173 x 122 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	218
ISBN-13:	978-0-8112-1368-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8112-1368-4
Barcode:	9780811213684

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