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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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Le Ly recounts her childhood in Ky La and her return to Vietnam in 1986 to search for the family she had left behind.
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ISBN:
9780452271685
With:
Wurts, Jay
Author:
Wurts, Jay
Author:
Hayslip, Le Ly
Publisher:
Plume Books
Location:
New York
Subject:
General
Subject:
Biography
Subject:
United states
Subject:
Refugees
Subject:
Vietnamese conflict, 1961-1975
Subject:
Vietnam
Subject:
Southeast Asia
Subject:
Personal narratives
Subject:
Vietnamese Conflict, 19
Subject:
Asia - Southeast Asia
Subject:
Women
Subject:
General Biography
Subject:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Subject:
Vietnam Description and travel.
Subject:
World History-Southeast Asia
Copyright:
1990
Edition Description:
Mass Market
Series Volume:
103-40
Publication Date:
19931131
Binding:
TRADE PAPER
Grade Level:
from 12
Language:
English
Pages:
400
Dimensions:
8.98x6.04x.88 in. .96 lbs.
Age Level:
from 18
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