Special edition for Uwe Timm's 60th birthday. One of the most successful, versatile, and beloved authors among readers, booksellers, and critics, Uwe Timm will turn 60 on March 30, 2000. On this occasion, the publisher Kiepenheuer & Witsch is releasing a special edition of one of Timm's most successful books, "The Discovery of Currywurst," which has sold over 100,000 copies since its release. The themes of Uwe Timm—how history and individual lives, everyday life and the extraordinary, taste and memory, storytelling and sensory experience are interconnected—are thrillingly and touchingly explored in this masterful novella. It also becomes clear why Timm, whose four books have been translated into English, is one of the few German authors who are appreciated internationally: storytelling knows no bounds!.