num_pages: 218
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Invention of Curried Sausage
titlecomplete: The Invention of Curried Sausage
genres: Classics, Food, German Literature, Germany, School, War, Historical Fiction, 20th Century, Contemporary, Fiction
ratings_count: 3231
places: Hamburg
publisher: New Directions