Books: Room No. 5

STEPHANIA (375 pp.)—llona Karmel—Houghton Mifflin ($3.75).

So far, the 1953 book season has produced no brilliant major novels, but it has already introduced some highly promising first novelists, e.g., 27-year-old George Lanning, author of The Happy Rural Seat, and 31-year-old Jefferson Young, who wrote A Good Man (see Recent & Readable). Now comes a 27-year-old Polish girl named llona Karmel with a quietly gripping story called Stephania.

llona Karmel spent her late teens in Nazi concentration camps, and when V-E came, her body was wasted and broken. Her spirit, as events proved, was intact....

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