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| The Invention of Curried Sausage | 
| Author: Uwe Timm
Creator: Leila Vennewitz
Publisher: New Directions
Category: Book
List Price: $11.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 55913
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 218
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 5 x 0.7
ISBN: 0811213684
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780811213684
ASIN: 0811213684
Publication Date: October 17, 1997
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An ingenious, revealing, and charming tale about the invention of a popular German sidewalk food by a woman who met, seduced, and held captive a deserter in April, 1945, just before the war's end. 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 Brcker 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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 This is a magical, fast read. September 6, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a believable end of WW II fairy tale, with an unexpectedly feminist twist. It's also a very fast read. Good work.
The Invention of Curried Sausage August 19, 2008
This was a touching and funny story. It was a fresh look at post-war Germany. I've had all my family and friends read it.
 Curry Wurst July 18, 2008
Great story that brings the end of WW II into perspective from a German's point of view.
If you have ever eaten Curry Wurst in Berlin (or other German city) you will get a real kick out how the author uses it as a basis for a very charming story.
A melancholy read of friendship and coincidence June 8, 2006
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a melancholy read of friendship and coincidence. The novel's object is the discoverer of veal sausage with curried ketchup - still one of the most popular burger van menu items in Germany. The circumstances of the discovery, and the narrator's recollections in connection with it, form the frame for a tale of wartime romance against a backdrop of defeat and regeneration at the end of World War II.
Sausage as one symbol for the end of WWII in Germany December 5, 2005
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
Traveling back to his childhood neighborhood, the narrator meets with one of his mother's neighbors, who lived through WWII in Hamburg, one of the most devastated cities in Germany. Already as a child he bought curried sausage (Currywurst) from her - and by trying to unravel how this strange dish came to be, he discovers how one's woman life was changed... A small, poignant novella about love and loss, war and destruction, and the power of human connections...
Uwe Timm is a German novelist and well-known children's book author. With a seemingly simple, but convincing style, he opens a small (fictive?) chapter about German lives at the end of WWII.
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