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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese women's journey from war to peace

by Le Ly Hayslip; Jay Wurts

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It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters langed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Le Ly was one of those children.

Before the age of sixteen, Le Ly had suffered near-starvation, imprisonment, torture, rape, and the deaths of beloved family members—but miraculously held fast to her faith in humanity. And almost twenty years after her escape to Ameica, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, offering a poignant picture of vietnam, then and now, and of a courageous woman who experienced the true horror of the Vietnam War—and survived to tell her unforgettable story.

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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is a 1989 memoir by Le Ly Hayslip about her childhood during the Vietnam War, her escape to the United States, and her return to visit Vietnam 16 years later. The Oliver Stone film Heaven & Earth was based on the memoir. The book was written with Jay Wurts, an L.A. -based writer and editor.

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Bookseller
Lemolo Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
721
Title
When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
Author
Le Ly Hayslip; Jay Wurts
Format/Binding
Good condition, yellowed edges
Book Condition
Used - Good-
Quantity Available
1
Binding
Paperback
ISBN 10
0452271681
ISBN 13
9780452271685
Publisher
Plume
Place of Publication
New York, New York, U.s.a.
Date Published
November 1, 1993
Pages
368
Keywords
vietnam, war, pace,
Bookseller catalogs
Non Fiction Books;

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