Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
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.

In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down is 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.

A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
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Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
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.

In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down is 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.

A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.
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Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

by Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts
Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

Fathers and Daughters: from When Heaven and Earth Changed Places

by Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts

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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.

In this harrowing selection from the memoir of a girl on the verge of womanhood in a world turned upside down is 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.

A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780525436638
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 08/08/2017
Series: A Vintage Short
Sold by: Random House
Format: eBook
Pages: 24
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Le Ly Hayslip was born in Vietnam in 1950. She is the author of two memoirs—When Heaven and Earth Changed Places and Child of War, Woman of Peace—which were adapted into the film Heaven & Earth, written and directed by Oliver Stone. Since 1986, she has helped rebuild her motherland through the two charitable organizations she established. Her efforts now focus exclusively on supporting the orphanages she founded in Vietnam. 
 
 
Jay Wurts, an Air Guard pilot during the Vietnam War, has written and edited a variety of books.
 
www.jaywurts.com
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