Voyage
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Cover Story
The illustration on our cover is from the newly-published Robert Cormier novel Beyond the Chocolate War, (Gollancz, 0 575 03711 3, £7.95). The illustration is by Caroline Binch and shows in the centre Archie Costello, Assigner of the Vigils, holding the white ball which readers of The Chocolate War will remember as all important in deciding who undertakes the assignments that are required from certain unfortunate individuals. In this sequel new characters join him and the old return to play out Archie's last term at Trinity High. We are grateful to Gollancz for help in using this illustration.
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It's 1904: we are on a ship bound for America, full of Jewish refugees each with a past to hanker for or relinquish and a future to hope for or fear. The story time is the journey and the book is crowded as the ship is with people of all ages. We travel mainly with 14 year-old Mina but the thoughts and feelings of passengers around her are revealed throughout, in short glimpses, piled upon each other and threaded together. Not a book to share aloud but worth offering to 13 year-olds for the way it conveys a sense of the emotional baggage of its displaced characters.