When Heaven And Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace - Couverture souple

Hayslip, Le Ly; Wurts, Jay

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0452264170 ISBN 13 : 9780452264175

Editeur : Penguin, 1993

Synopsis

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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À propos de l'auteur

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Penguin
• Date d'édition: 1993
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0452264170
• ISBN 13: 9780452264175
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 368
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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