The Battle for God Condition:Like New Celebrated novelist John Lanchester ("an

Celebrated novelist John Lanchester ("an elegant and wonderfully witty writer"—New York Times) returns with an epic novel that captures the obsessions of our time

multifarious crystallisations of the imagination

they might not even have a chance to enter the battle before the world is consumed by war

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brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West

The Battle for God Condition:Like New Celebrated novelist John Lanchester ("anIn the late twentieth century, fundamentalism has emerged as one of the most powerful forces at work in the world, contesting the dominance of modern secular values and threatening peace and harmony around the globe. Yet it remains incomprehensible to a large number of people. In The Battle for God , Karen Armstrong brilliantly and sympathetically shows us how and why fundamentalist groups came into existence and what they yearn to accomplish. We see