Ebook {Epub PDF} Stephania by Ilona Karmel

It is Stephania who finally moves outside herself to help the others; moves beyond her own selfish needs and helps her roommates. Karmel's decription of Thura's paralysis is so believable that I felt I was 5/5(5). Stephania by Ilona Karmel Seller Brownie's Books Collectibles Published Condition Good Edition Book Club (BCE/BOMC) Item Price $ Show Details. Description: Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, Book Club Edition; pages. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hard Cover. Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Add to Cart. The three bedridden protagonists are Stephania who has become a hunchback through a spine injury, sixteen year old Thura who is a polio case — completely paralyzed but for the use of her right arm, and Froken Nilsson whose fractured leg will not heal. In a rather muscular prose, the author manages to convey the personal tragedy of handicapped.

Ilona Karmel, born in Cracow in , was sixteen when she was deported to a German labor camp for the duration of the war. Later, seriously and permanently injured by German tanks during the liberation of Buchenwald, she made her way to the U.S. where she studied, taught, and wrote two novels in English. Karmel transferred to Radcliffe College, graduating with honors in under the mentorship of the poet Archibald Mac-Leish. Her first novel, Stephania () emerged from her experiences in the Swedish hospital. Karmel's masterpiece, An Estate of Memory (), was the product of a www.doorway.ru: Stephania: First English edition. Light offsetting to the endpapers, else fine in a fine dustwrapper with modest edgewear and minor chipping to the flap folds and spine. The story of three patients in a Swedish hospital for the handicapped, and how they are changed by the hospital and each other. The author's first book.

Report repeated from the November 1, Bulletin, P. The Literary Guild's selection of this book for its April offering will extend its market beyond our expectations when originally reported ""A searching study of illness #; if a cheerless one #; in which the three patients in room number Five, Ward Two, in the Institute for the Handicapped in Stockholm provide a bitter. Her first novel, Stephania () emerged from her experiences in the Swedish hospital. Karmel's masterpiece, An Estate of Memory (), was the product of a year immersion in wartime memories. Set within a labor camp resembling Starzysko, the novel depicts the physical and psychological pressures on four women who form a surrogate family. Karmel, I: Stephania. LAST June's graduates currently adapting themselves to -- and even more those who are still looking for -- jobs may well envy Ilona Karmel, Radcliffe, Phi Beta Kappa, , a.