Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the
Year Final reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian
Tony Judt. Tony Judt's The Memory Chalet is a memoir unlike any
other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal
experience into the larger frame of history. Judt's youthful love
of a London bus route becomes a reflection on public civility. Food
and trains and smells all come alive as Judt takes us from the
postwar London of his childhood through Paris, Prague, and points
east to New York, where he found his home. Judt brings his moral
clarity and wit to bear on everything from fast cars to radical
politics and, finally, the devastating illness that took his life.
This book, composed when Judt was paralyzed and unable physically
to write, found its shape in the ordered rooms of a Swiss Chalet of
the mind: a warm refuge in the closing darkness of his final years.
Judt's book, Ill Fares the Land, republished in 2021 featuring a
new preface by bestselling author of Between the World and Me and
The Water Dancer, Ta-Nehisi Coates.
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