In this sequel to "When Heaven and Earth Changed Places", the author continues her autobiographical saga of an Asian bride on America's "golden shore", seeking to heal the wounds of war - and love - and discover the meaning of her life. The book recounts Le Ly's apprenticeship as a housewife in a land where kitchen sinks "swallow food", and neighbourhood church ladies strive to save her "heathen Buddhist soul". Her uncanny ability to attract colourful characters - from con artists to despondent suitors - only muddles her search for the true peace she hoped America would grant her. Yet beneath Le Ly's amusing view of America, her emotions are torn between the promise of her adopted country and the land - full of pain, but also of the pleasures of an ancient and beguiling way of life - she left behind.

Heaven and Earth: Child of War, Woman of Peace

Biographies & Memoirs

Hayslip, Le Ly

Community & Culture

Pan/Macmillan

The author of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places completes her autobiography, describing her life as a young bride in the United States, experiencing her new country's many wonders and oddities. 17,500 first printing. National ad/promo. Tour.

Child of War, Woman of Peace

DOUBLEDAY

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.

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

Wurts, Jay

Plume

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (Tie-In Edition)

“One of the most important books of Vietnamese American and Vietnam War literature...Moving, powerful.” —Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Sympathizer In these pages, Le Ly Hayslip—just twelve years old when U.S. helicopters landed in her tiny village of Ky La—shows us the Vietnam War as she lived it. Initially pressed into service by the Vietcong, Le Ly was captured and imprisoned by government forces. She found sanctuary at last with an American contractor and ultimately fled to the United States. Almost twenty years after her escape, Le Ly found herself inexorably drawn back to the devastated country and loved ones she’d left behind, and returned to Vietnam in 1986. Scenes of this joyous reunion are interwoven with the brutal war years, creating an extraordinary portrait of the nation, then and now—and of one courageous woman who held fast to her faith in humanity. First published in 1989, When Heaven and Earth Changed Places was hailed as an instant classic. Now, some two decades later, this indispensable memoir continues to be one of our most important accounts of a conflict we must never forget.

Anchor

Written and directed by three-time Academy Award-winner Oliver Stone, "Heaven and Earth" is a major motion picture from Warner Bros, scheduled for release in January 1994. Inspired bv the autobiographical books of Le Ly Hayslip, the film is the epic story of a remarkable Vietnamese woman, her family, and a country torn apart by the ravages of war. This book contains a narrative based on the screenplay, 120 photographs, and a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the movie. A contribution by D Le Ly Hayslip, movingily recounts the experience of having one's past rebuilt and re-enacted.

The Making of Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth

Humor & Entertainment

Singer, Michael

STONE, OLIVER

Le, Thi Hiep

Movies

Tuttle Pub

It is said that in war heaven and earth change places not once, but many times. This book recounts the haunting memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down in Vietnam.

A stunning visual tour of Vietnam by a returning war veteran and accidental artist searching for understanding and healing from the scars of war. Vietnam is an ancient and beautiful land, with a deep history of occupational conflict that remains an enigma in Americans' collective memory. It is still easy to forget that Vietnam is a country and not a war, even as America's role in Vietnam inflamed and divided the American citizenry in ways that are still evident today. It is as if Vietnam's civil war resurrected our own. And if you are a Vietnam War veteran or a family member of a vet, it's worse, because, even after a half-century, many of the wounds won't heal. What do you do when you have given up on forgetting? Chuck Forsman is one of a sizable number of aging Vietnam vets who have found deep satisfaction in revisiting Vietnam, supporting charities, orphanages, and clinics, doing volunteer work and more--anything to redeem what the U.S. military did there. He is also a renowned painter and photographer who depicts places and environments in ways that become unforgettable visual experiences for the contemporary viewer. Lost in Vietnam chronicles a journey, not a country. They were taken on visits averaging two months each and two-year intervals over a decade. Forsman traveled largely by motorbike throughout the country--south, central, and north--sharing his experiences through amazing photographs of Vietnam's lands and people. His visual journey of one such veteran's twofold quest: the one for redemption and understanding, and the other to make art. The renowned Le Ly Hayslip introduces the book and sets the table for Forsman's incredible sojourn.

Lost in Vietnam

Arts & Photography

Forsman, Chuck

Individual Artists

George F. Thompson Publishing

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Heaven and Earth: Child of War, Woman of Peace

Child of War, Woman of Peace

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places (Tie-In Edition)

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

The Making of Oliver Stone's Heaven and Earth

When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace

Lost in Vietnam