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From Nobel Prize winner Amartya Sen a memoir about home belonging inequality and identity recounting a singular life devoted to bettering humanityA towering figure in the field of economics Amartya Sen is perhaps best known for his work on poverty and famine as inspired by events in his boyhood home of West Bengal India But Sen has in fact called many places home from Dhaka in modern Bangladesh to Trinity College Cambridge In Home in the World these homes collectively form an unparalleled and profoundly truthful vision of twentieth and twentyfirst century life Interweaving scenes from his youth with candid reflections on wealth welfare and social justice Sen shows how his life experiencesin Asia Europe and later Americavitally informed his work culminating in the ultimate portrait of a citizen of the world Philip Hensher SpectatorSen is more than an economist moral philosopher or even an academic He is a lifelong campaigner for a more noble idea of homeEdward Luce Financial Times UK