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When heaven and earth changed places : a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace / Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Doubleday, [1989]Copyright date: ©1989Edition: First editionDescription: xv, 368 pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0385247583
  • 9780385247580
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 959.70438 19
LOC classification:
  • DS556.93.H39 A3 1989
Contents:
Prologue: Dedication to peace.--1. Coming back.--2. Fathers and daughters.--3. Open wounds.--4. Losing the way.--5. Losing love. --6. A question of faith.--7. A different view.--8. Sisters and brothers.--9. Daughters and sons.--10. Power on earth.-- 11. Almost in paradise.--12. Finding a family.--13. Finding peace. --14. Letting go.--Epilogue: A song of enlightenment.
Summary: 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 America, 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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Prologue: Dedication to peace.--1. Coming back.--2. Fathers and daughters.--3. Open wounds.--4. Losing the way.--5. Losing love. --6. A question of faith.--7. A different view.--8. Sisters and brothers.--9. Daughters and sons.--10. Power on earth.-- 11. Almost in paradise.--12. Finding a family.--13. Finding peace. --14. Letting go.--Epilogue: A song of enlightenment.

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 America, 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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