The Invention of Curried Sausage

Timm, Uwe

Omschrijving

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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Schrijver
Timm, Uwe
Titel
The Invention of Curried Sausage
Uitgever
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Jaar
1997
Taal
Engels
Pagina's
218
Gewicht
204 gr
EAN
9780811213684
Afmetingen
184 x 127 x 19 mm
Bindwijze
Paperback

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