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«Memory Chalets» — is a memoir unlike any other. Each essay brings the smallest details of personal experience into the larger framework of history. Food, trains and smells come alive as Judt takes us from the post-war London of his childhood through Paris, Prague and on to New York, where he found his home.

Thanks to his moral integrity and natural wit, Judt manages to combine everything from his passion for motor racing to radical politics and, finally, the devastating disease that eventually took his life.

This book was created when Judt was already paralysed and physically unable to write, but it appeared as if in the cosiness of old roadside hotels - as the last warm refuge in the darkness of his last years.