by Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780452271685
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«When Heaven and Earth Changed Places» is the autobiography by Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts, published by Penguin in paperback (400 pages, in English).
Le Ly Hayslip recounts her childhood in Ky La (central Vietnam), where at twelve the American helicopters arrived and she was recruited as a spy by both sides. Before sixteen she suffered imprisonment, torture, rape and the death of relatives; once in the United States, she returns to Vietnam in search of the family she left behind.
This tie-in edition, published in 1993, is linked to Oliver Stone's movie Heaven & Earth and includes a new epilogue.
For an adult audience interested in biographies, Vietnamese history and survival testimonies.
Le Ly Hayslip is a Vietnamese-American writer, memoirist and humanitarian. Through her foundations, she has worked to rebuild cultural bridges between Vietnam and America following the Vietnam War.
