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When Heaven and Earth Changed Places Paperback - 1993

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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  • Title When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
  • Author Le Ly Hayslip; Jay Wurts
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Pages 400
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Plume Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date November 1, 1993
  • ISBN 9780452271685 / 0452271681
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.9 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.29 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Reading level 1100
  • Library of Congress subjects Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnam - Description and travel
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 89013711
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

Media reviews

"A wonderful, wondrous book by a remarkable woman."
—Amy Tan, author of The Joy Luck Club

"Touching and illuminating . . . lucid, lyrical . . . a searing and human account."
New York Times Book Review

"Should not be missed by anyone . . . No one who reads it will ever be able to think about the Vietnam War in quite the same way again."
Washington Post

"Riveting and historic . . . engrossing and beautifully told . . . impossible to put down."
San Francisco Chronicle

About the author

Le Ly Hayslip (born Phng Thị Lệ L) is a Vietnamese-American memoirist and humanitarian.
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