Why Join?

  • Add New Books

  • Write a Review

  • Backpack Reading Lists

  • Monthly Newsletter

Join Now

This is how we talk

This is how we talk

Author(s): Julian Furman

Location(s): Tel Aviv

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): Contmeporary

Location

Content

Life in Tel Aviv, Israel’s famed party town, is restless, relentless and amoral, a cycle of hedonism and bitter regret. Modern couple, Yonotan and Lia, are at the heart of the scene, and this is the story of their relationship, lives as parents and the fallout from their break-up.With searing honesty, Furman examines the younger generation of Israelis, alienated from their state and morally conflicted about their role as soldiers and citizens; burdened with responsibility of forging the future for a nation perpetually at war with itself.

Review this Book

To review this book, please

Log in

Book Reviews

Lead Review

Author: tripfiction

This Is How We Talk is a novel I frankly did not enjoy, yet found quite compelling. The writing is stylish and self-assured, as the review on the cover promises. The reader is taken...

Read review