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The Memory Chalet 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 postwar London of his childhood through Paris, Prague, and finally to New York, where he found his home.

With his moral integrity and natural wit, Judt manages to combine everything from his passion for motor racing to radical politics and, finally, the devastating illness that ultimately 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 inns - as the last warm refuge in the darkness of his last years.