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.

烏韋•提姆（Uwe Timm，1940—）

德國當代知名暢銷作傢，德國著名齣版社Ki&Wi重量級長銷型作傢，作品在德國的銷售總量超過300萬冊。齣生於漢堡，先後在慕尼黑和巴黎研究哲學，後從事寫作，曾獲得1989年慕尼黑文學奬、1990年德國青少年文學奬、2006年意大利Premio Napoli文學奬（曆屆獲奬名單中包括瞭多麗絲•萊辛，君特•格拉斯，薩拉馬戈等）、2009年海因裏希•伯爾文學奬、2012年Carl-Zuckmayer奬章。齣版於1993年的《咖喱香腸的誕生》是他的第三本、也是極受好評和歡迎的一部小說，被翻譯為16種語言，引起世界文壇矚目，並於2008年被改編為同名電影。2003年齣版小說《以我兄弟之名》，翻譯成20餘國語言齣版。2013年齣版的小說《鳥鳴牧場》入圍當年德國圖書奬長名單。