TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hayslip,Le Ly
AU  - Wurts,Jay
TI  - When heaven and earth changed places: a Vietnamese woman's journey from war to peace 
SN  - 0385247583
AV  - DS556.93.H39 A3 1989
U1  - 959.70438 19
PY  - 1989///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Doubleday
KW  - Hayslip, Le Ly.
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
KW  - Personal narratives, Vietnamese
KW  - Refugees
KW  - Vietnam
KW  - Biography
KW  - United States
KW  - Description and travel
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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