Behind the Glass Wall: Inside the United Nations
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (831 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00VE3L6VY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 597 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-12-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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He was the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Genius Grant from the MacArthur Foundation. Aleksandar Hemon is the author of The Making of Zombie Wars; The Book of My Lives, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; The Lazarus Project, which was
“An extraordinary writer: one who seems not simply gifted but necessary.” Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review“A virtuoso linguist, stylist and social observer Deeply human, totally irresistible and often hilarious, and by turns culturally specific and universal.” Kera Bolonik, San Francisco Chronicle
And yet he also understood that “without the UN, without the very idea of it, the crimes against Bosnians couldn’t be perceived as crimes against all humanity.”By the time Hemon had finished his residency at the United Nations—he and the Magnum photographer Peter van Agtmael were invited into the iconic New York City headquarters and given access to the secretary-general, the General Assembly, and the Security Council—his relationship with the institution was even more complicated.In Behind the Glass Wall, Hemon shows us an essential modern institution at work, one both beautifully driven and profoundly crippled by its noble ideals. An unprecedented glimpse into the strange and remarkable inner workings of the United NationsBefore he was invited to become the United Nations’ first writer in residence, Aleksandar Hemon had a complicated relationship with the institution, whose i