Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2013) Stricken with cancer

Stricken with cancer

As people increasingly define themselves by ethnicity and religion

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Tereza's jealousy awakens by night

Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith Financial Times Business Book of the Year Nominee for Longlist (2013) Stricken with cancerA multilayered, bone chilling narrative of messianic delusion, savage violence, polygamy, and unyielding faith. This is vintage Krakauer, an utterly compelling work of nonfiction that illuminates an otherwise confounding realm of human behavior. Jon Krakauers literary reputation rests on insightful chronicles of lives conducted at the outer limits. In Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, he shifts his focus from extremes of physical