{"product_id":"the-memory-chalet-9780143119975","title":"The Memory Chalet","description":"\u003cb\u003eSelected by \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e as a Notable Book of the Year\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFinal reflections on a happy life-from acclaimed historian Tony Judt.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTony Judt's \u003ci\u003eThe Memory Chalet\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJudt's book, \u003ci\u003eIll Fares the Land\u003c\/i\u003e, republished in 2021 featuring a new preface by bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBetween the World and Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Water Dancer\u003c\/i\u003e, Ta-Nehisi Coates.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/25\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780143119975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.40lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.70d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/27\/2011 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Tony Judt","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43544040439989,"sku":"9780143119975","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_8ac8b65a-0f40-4092-b3d4-e1942d914179.jpg?v=1706117954","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-memory-chalet-9780143119975","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}