La invención de la salchicha al curry

The invention of the curry sausage has for a short time become a classic of German literature and one of the most celebrated works of Uwe Timm, who tells us a wonderful love story set in Hamburg during the last days of World War II. World. Inspired by childhood memories of him, the narrator embarks on a search for the former owner of a food stall in town. In the end he manages to locate Lena Brücker, now an elderly woman living in a nursing home, where he listens to her remember the happiest years of her life and her love affair with a young deserter whom she hid at home, a situation that led to the invention of the famous German curry sausage at the end of April 1945. The relationship between history and private lives, between the everyday and the miraculous, between taste and memory, between narrative and sensory experience -important themes in the work of Uwe Timm- are reflected in an exciting and moving way in this masterful novel.