![]() ![]() And almost twenty years after her escape to America, she was drawn inexorably back to the devastated country and family she left behind. 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. As the government and Viet Cong troops fought in and around Ky La, both sides recruited children as spies and saboteurs. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places : A Vietnamese Womans Journey from War to Peace Description Book details About Le Ly Hayslip More Books By Le Ly. helicopters landed in Ky La, her tiny village in central Vietnam. She leaves Vietnam in 1970 for the United States. The youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family, Le Ly Hayslip was twelve years old when U.S. Le Ly is a Vietnamese peasant who grows up on the central coast of Vietnam. When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down. Summary: It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. ![]()
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