{"product_id":"the-memory-chalet-tony-judt-9780143119975","title":"The Memory Chalet","description":"\u003cp\u003eSelected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book  of the Year\n\u003cbr\u003e Final reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony  Judt.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTony 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eJudt'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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tony Judt","offers":[{"title":"As New","offer_id":46144476348659,"sku":"2770002404066","price":10.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780143119975.jpg?v=1725012921","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/the-memory-chalet-tony-judt-9780143119975","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}