![]() ![]() 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. And almost twenty years after her escape to Ameica, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places tells the story of Le Lys life as a young peasant. Le Ly was one of those children.īefore 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. Author and humanitarian Le Ly Hayslip will lead this amazing trip. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. Her first book, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Womans Journey from War to Peace ( Doubleday, 1989), tells the story of her somewhat peaceful early childhood and war-torn adolescence. ![]() helicopters langed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. ![]()
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