Böcker av Uwe Timm

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.

Viele Menschen sind sich sicher: Die Currywurst kommt aus Berlin und ist Ende der fünfziger Jahre entstanden. Uwe Timm erzählt uns eine andere Geschichte! Sie beginnt kurz vor Kriegsende 1945 in Hamburg. Die einsame Lena Brücker trifft auf den jungen Bootsmann Hermann Bremer - und will ihn nicht mehr loslassen. Ja, und dann ist da noch die Currywurst. Wir erfahren, was ihre Entdeckung mit Lena Brücker, einem silbernen Reiterabzeichen, einer Whisky trinkenden Dame, drei zerbrochenen Flaschen Ketchup und vielem anderen zu tun hat.

Join an incredible mynah bird on and adventure as he makes his wayin the big city.

Wagner, an all-efficient German engineer, takes in hand the job of rescuing a floundering construction project in the South American rain forest. But before he even reaches the site, his car runs over an emerald-green Acaray snake--marking him, according to local beliefs, for death. Things go from bad to worse. Wagner's slowly degenerating colleagues are useless; his attempts to help the workers bring on a strike that the military regime suppresses; and he botches up the Company's delicate system of bribery. The building is sinking into the red mud faster than it is being built. Losing ground, Wagner tensely observes himself losing balance and events take an ugly turn.