Rabbit in the Moon
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Publisher Description
San Francisco, 1989: Forty years after Mao and his People's Liberation Army set out to change China forever, Dr. Lili Quan prepares for a journey that will change her life forever.
To honor her mother's dying wish that she "return" home, American-born Lili reluctantly sets out for China. For Lili, a passionate idealist, this will be an extraordinary trip filled with remarkable discoveries - from meeting and falling in love with Chi-Wen Zhou, a victim of the Cultural Revolution and zealous Taoist, to finding Dr. Ni-Fu Cheng, the grandfather Lili believed had died years ago. But Ni-Fu has made the most remarkable discovery of all: he's discovered the secret to long life. As greedy and unscrupulous men vie for control of the most earth-shattering discovery of the century, Lili, Ni-Fu's only living relative, could become a pawn in a deadly and dangerous international game. Before she can hold the key to the future, Lili must unlock the deadly secrets of the past.
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At the start of this routine political thriller from the Shlians (Double Illusion), Dr. Ni-Fu Cheng arranges for his daughter to escape to America from Communist China in 1949. Forty years later, Foreign Minister Lin plots to regain control of the Chinese Communist Party by coercing Dr. Cheng into revealing the results of his research into increasing human longevity. To force the scientist's hand, teams are dispatched to the U.S. to find Cheng's granddaughter, Dr. Lili Quan, a resident at an L.A. hospital. Dylan O'Hara, a fellow doctor who may have romantic designs on Quan, happens to be conducting research of his own into the immune system to identify the gene controlling aging. Full of clich d prose ("Had he been a fool to fall in love with someone from such a different world?"), this novel fails to use to best advantage the dramatic events leading to the Tiananmen Square massacre.
