This is How We Talk

Julian Furman

2020

Hand dyed fair calf with gold tooling, gold tooled teal goatskin doublures, intaglio printed on acrylic paste ground endpapers, hand coloured edges, hand sewn silk endbands. A commission from the author, this book is as much a love story to Tel Aviv as it is about the warring factions within a relationship. The calfskin was hand dyed to represent one of the extraordinary sunsets over the Mediterranean Sea they have there, with the palm trees along the boardwalk free tooled, and tracer fire and explosions overhead representing the colliding relationships of the protagonists. Inside the map of Tel Aviv is as per the original 1925 urban plan by Patrick Geddes but in positive and negative. It is where the opposite worlds within the book collide – rich and poor, Arab and Jew, man and woman, old and young, Palestine and Israel, gay and straight.