Die Entdeckung der Currywurst

At the Grossneumarkt in Hamburg once stood the snack bar of Mrs. Brücker, who told anyone willing to listen that she invented currywurst shortly after the war. The narrator remembers this years later, long after the snack bar has disappeared. In a nursing home, he tracks down the over eighty-year-old woman, but instead of revealing her culinary secret, she begins to tell a story that takes him back to the war year of 1945. Isabel Kreitz brings Uwe Timm's equally thrilling and touching novel "The Discovery of Currywurst" to life with atmospheric illustrations. In doing so, "Germany's best comic artist" (Die Woche) presents a meticulously researched picture of the end of the war in devastated Hamburg. The high-quality new edition also includes a comprehensive appendix documenting the dramatic events of the war's end in Hamburg.