The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed 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.
In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down is 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.
A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
Praise for When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
"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
Le Ly Hayslip was born in Vietnam in 1950. She is the author of two memoirs—When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace—which were adapted into the film Heaven & Earth, written and directed by Oliver Stone. Since 1986, she has helped rebuild her motherland through the two charitable organizations she established. Her efforts now focus exclusively on supporting the orphanages she founded in Vietnam.
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Jay Wurts, an Air Guard pilot during the Vietnam War, has written and edited a variety of books.
The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed 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.
In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down is 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.
A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
Reviews
Praise for When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
"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
Author
Le Ly Hayslip was born in Vietnam in 1950. She is the author of two memoirs—When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace—which were adapted into the film Heaven & Earth, written and directed by Oliver Stone. Since 1986, she has helped rebuild her motherland through the two charitable organizations she established. Her efforts now focus exclusively on supporting the orphanages she founded in Vietnam.
View titles by Le Ly Hayslip
Jay Wurts, an Air Guard pilot during the Vietnam War, has written and edited a variety of books.
