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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.
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The Invention of Curried Sausage, Uve Timm, Leila Vennewitz
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 1997
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- Titolo
- The Invention of Curried Sausage
- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- Uve Timm, Leila Vennewitz
- Pubblicato
- 1997
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 218
- ISBN10
- 0811213684
- ISBN13
- 9780811213684
- Serie
- Tag
- Narrativa, Tema stórico, Prosa storica, Amore, Letteratura tedesca, Classici, Germania, Prosa di guerra, Guerre, Seconda guerra mondiale, Cibo, Scuola, Novelletti, Amburgo, Periodo post-bellico, Soldati, Guerra mondiale
- Valutazione
- 3,3 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.