The Retreat of Radiance

By Ian Moffitt

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• Format: Hardcover
• ISBN: B000PANBC4
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Stein & Day
• Weight: 1.01 lbs.

Customer Reviews

a great Australian novel

Ian Moffitt's great, nostalgic story is one of my favourite novels. It's 'a novel of revenge' and its unlikely antagonists are a middle-aged and grief-stricken Australian journalist and a Taiwanese billionaire, formerly an avaricious Nationalist general in China's civil war. The title is from an eponymous temple where the much younger and callower Australian witnessed a terrible massacre decades ago. Ian Moffitt obviously loves China and knows the country well. His descriptions of the dry, harsh Chinese landscape are vivid and dreamlike. He also has a very good sense of humour, so the novel never becomes self-important. He writes beautifully.