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Original Title:	When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
ISBN:	0452271681 (ISBN13: 9780452271685)
Edition Language:	English

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace Paperback | Pages: 400 pages

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Title	:	When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
Author	:	Le Ly Hayslip
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 400 pages
Published	:	November 1st 1993 by Plume (first published April 29th 1989)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Autobiography. Memoir. History. War. Cultural. Asia. Biography. Biography Memoir

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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 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. 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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This book is the closest I will ever get to understanding my father's childhood as a peasant in South Vietnam during the war that Americans know as the Vietnam War and the Vietnamese know as the American War.I heard vaguer, child-censored versions of my dad's stories of the pressures of two sides (Viet Cong & Republican) in his village, and the euphemism of being taken away for "personal discussion" by the Viet Cong, but reading this memoir of a woman with different-yet-similar experiences

A Vietnamese girl grows up through all of the wars that wash over Vietnam. She becomes a "boat person" to the US, then returns to Vietnam as an adult. Fascinating, beautifully written and a real lesson in what happened in Vietnam.

The author does a splendid job of revealing to the reader the horrors of war and how the untold casualties of any war are inevitably not just those who serve in combat, but the millions of innocent people whose lives are forever uprooted and irrevocably altered by the hell on earth that is war. She shows clearly how war is very much like a terrible disease which devours the humanity from its participants and shows no mercy to any innocent which has the misfortune to end up in its path. Through



If you read about the Vietnam war on the web, you will know all the facts about it. You can also have a political perspective - that the communists defeated America or that America stood by the people. But you will never know what war really means - how it impacts the country, how it destroys families, and how it flares up greed, selfishness and inhumanity in the ordinary people. As the author's father tells her in the book, "Do not hate the people, hate the war for making them like that". This

This is one of my favourite books. I bought a badly printed version off a beggar child in a Vietnamese bar because I felt sorry for him. I didn't expect to devour it! I have lots of books in storage but this one always comes with me when I move.

I have mixed feelings about this book. It literally took me years to read---because it didn't grab my attention and beg to be read every day. After visiting Vietnam, I wanted to understand the war from a local's perspective, and I think this book achieves this exactly. The author grows up in a central village that is torn between the Viet Cong and Republican (the side the US was on) forces--and they have to feign allegiance to both of them at different times, in order to survive. I believe it