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.

乌韦•提姆（Uwe Timm，1940—）

德国当代知名畅销作家，德国著名出版社Ki&Wi重量级长销型作家，作品在德国的销售总量超过300万册。出生于汉堡，先后在慕尼黑和巴黎研究哲学，后从事写作，曾获得1989年慕尼黑文学奖、1990年德国青少年文学奖、2006年意大利Premio Napoli文学奖（历届获奖名单中包括了多丽丝•莱辛，君特•格拉斯，萨拉马戈等）、2009年海因里希•伯尔文学奖、2012年Carl-Zuckmayer奖章。出版于1993年的《咖喱香肠的诞生》是他的第三本、也是极受好评和欢迎的一部小说，被翻译为16种语言，引起世界文坛瞩目，并于2008年被改编为同名电影。2003年出版小说《以我兄弟之名》，翻译成20余国语言出版。2013年出版的小说《鸟鸣牧场》入围当年德国图书奖长名单。