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Title: When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace by Le Ly Hayslip, Jay Wurts ISBN: 0-452-27168-1 Publisher: Plume Books Pub. Date: 01 December, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.55 (31 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A Wonderful, Touching, and Informative Read
Comment: I thoroughly enjoyed Le Ly Hayslip's account of her Vietnam War experience. Hayslip presents her story in a way that does not invoke sympathy from the reader; the story instead represents a call for action from the reader. Hayslip story is the heroic journey of a Vietnamese girl, and she effectively presents the numerous dimensions of the war in ways that relate to both Americans and Vietnamese Americans. I recommend Hayslip's novel to anyone wishing to learn more about this war and specifically any student of American history or culture. This story has the ability to bridge the gaps opened by the Vietnam War that have yet to be closed.
Rating: 5
Summary: A War That's Not Over
Comment: "Le Ly Hayslip had always been in-between south and north, east and west, peace and war, Vietnam and America. It has been her life and fate to be in-between Heaven and Earth." When Heaven and Earth Changed Places is a story of a woman from a small village in Vietnam called Ky La. The author, Le Ly Hayslip, is just another victim of the Vietnam War. The brutality of the war created separation in her family, destruction of an individual, and distrust among formerly warm-hearted neighbors. She was born the youngest of six children in a close-knit Buddhist family. Throughout her childhood, the peace breaks into pieces due to the war. Le Ly, as a little girl, serves the Viet Cong fighters, and she is honored for courageously surviving tortures in prison when captured by the government. The book focuses on the individual¡¯s emotional and physical outcomes caused by the war. If one wants to know the reality of what the effects of the war are, this book is definitely recommended. As an Asian, I was attracted to the story of the life of this Vietnamese woman. As I read, I found there was something very extraordinary about her life that stirred my emotions. To the public, this story is well known through the movie, "Heaven and Earth." As the movie was enjoyed by numerous moviegoers, the book will be appreciated by people of all ages, especially those who are interested in the Vietnam War.
Rating: 3
Summary: A communist trying to make an extra buck of the U.S.
Comment: I thought this book was a great read and that it went by very fast due to the nature that it was written in, as a flashback narrative to suggest that memory functions as a patchwork of quilt of thoughts that are discontinuous and not linear. I am an Asian American Studies major at UCI and read this book several times in my Asian Am. classes. As a "Viet Kieu" who left war-torn Vietnam as a young child to immigrate to the U.S. due to the Communist rule, Le Ly Hayslip represents a traitor and a money hungry Communist who helped to destroy Vietnam. She may be claiming to want to put the past aside and not to take sides, and to forgive those who wrong her, but she still is a COMMUNIST who sides with the Viet Cong and is benefiting from the capitalist U.S. If you read her second book, Child of War, Woman of Peace, she dares to compare the evil Ho Chi Minh to President Abraham Lincoln. She claims to not know anything about communism even though her and her family helped the Viet Cong in the Vietnam War. She compares American men to dogs and to children who grew up without mothers, yet her countless flings are with white American men and the fathers of her two of her three boys are two different white men.
She is a woman of loose morals and uses people to her advantage to get what she wants. She comes to America and uses the system to become a millionaire, while ignoring her family who are struggling to survive back home in Vietnam. They no not have enough to eat and need medical attention and she admits to being a bad daughter and sister by ignoring her family in Vietnam. I believe a lot of her stories are fabricated to lure a wider audience, and to not isolate and insult her adopting country by outright sympathizing with the Communists. She just wants to make the book seem sensational and appealing so that she can make a large profit in entertaining people with her lies. I am not saying that things like these did not happen to people in the war, it just seems so credulous to me that she can pretend to be neutral while there is a undertone of sympathizing with the Viet Congs and hating the Americans. She makes herself to be a victim while in fact she created and got herself in a lot of these situations.
It makes me angry to see these hypocritical communists who claim to want equality for all, benefit and become rich from the sufferings of others. The Viet Congs lied, tortured, and killed numerous innocent people to get what they want. Many of my family members were killed and tortured in the Vietnam War by people like her. I myself left Vietnam as a boat person and saw people on the boat die of dehydration, get robbed and raped by Thai pirates. The Viet Congs made life so miserable that many were willing to die trying to leave Vietnam than to stay and live in a Communist country. They claim to want to make Vietnam independent and free, but look at how Vietnam is today. It is even worse off than before the war with many dying because of poverty, mal-nutrition, and illnesses and diseases.
Le LY is ostracized in the Vietnamese Community in the U.S. and was booed and driven out of UCI went she went there to be a guest speaker. She is shunned by the Viet Kieu in the U.S. for sympathizing with the Viet Congs and aiding them during the war. She may pretend and hide behind her facade of claiming to be a pretty and poor village girl who knows nothing, she uses this to her advantage to gain sympathy from her readers, She knows exactly what she is doing by luring readers into her stories. It's pathetic how low she would go to make a buck off the same capitalist system that she and the communists despised do much that they had to engage in a war that turned many people's lives upside down, to drive the Americans out. It's also ironic how she and the communists now seek aid from the very people that they were fighting against not so long ago.
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Title: Child of War, Woman of Peace by Le Ly Hayslip, James Hayslip ISBN: 0385471475 Publisher: Anchor Books/Doubleday Pub. Date: 01 January, 1994 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Title: The Sacred Willow: Four Generations in the Life of a Vietnamese Family by Duong Van Mai Elliott ISBN: 0195137876 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
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Title: The Sorrow of War: A Novel of North Vietnam by Bao Ninh, Frank Palmos, Phan Thanh Hao ISBN: 1573225436 Publisher: Riverhead Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1996 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: The Legacy: The Vietnam War in the American Imagination by Michael Shafer ISBN: 0807054011 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 December, 1991 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Catfish and Mandala: A 2 Wheeled Voyage Through the Landscape and Memory of Vietnam by Andrew X. Pham ISBN: 0312267177 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 September, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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