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 fr…
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Weitere Autoren: Vennewitz, Leila (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8112-1368-4
- EAN: 9780811213684
- Produktnummer: 9268415
- Verlag: New Directions
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
- Seitenangabe: 218 S.
- Masse: H17.2 cm x B12.1 cm x D2.7 cm 194 g
- Gewicht: 194
Über den Autor
Uwe Timm was born in Hamburg, Germany. His first novel, Hot Summer, was published in 1974. New Directions publishes five of his novels, including the German best selling, The Invention of Curried Sausage, and the award winning, Morenga. After apprenticing as a furrier, Timm studied philosophy and philology in Paris and Munich. He is the 1989 winner of the Munich Literary Prize. He has been called an extraordinary story teller (The New Yorker) and one of the best living German Writers (Kirkus Reviews).
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