Le Ly Hayslip
Autore di When Heaven and Earth Changed Places: A Vietnamese Woman's Journey from War to Peace
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Opere di Le Ly Hayslip
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Shared Values for a Troubled World: Conversations with Men and Women of Conscience (1994) — Collaboratore — 26 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1949-12-19
- Sesso
- female
- Nazionalità
- Vietnam
USA
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Recensioni
Liste
Read These Too (1)
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- Opere
- 8
- Opere correlate
- 3
- Utenti
- 740
- Popolarità
- #34,321
- Voto
- 4.0
- Recensioni
- 10
- ISBN
- 32
- Lingue
- 8
Still, this is a unique perspective of the American-Vietnam War from a Vietnamese peasant girl just coming of age. I had never thought or could imagine what it may have been like for the citizen’s of Vietnam caught up in this war. This memoir will give you a lot to think about. The pressure was put on them from all sides. Viet Cong came to Le Ly’s village in 1963. But, the real enemies were the French, who ruled over them and basically treated them like slaves, and raped and killed, and the Viet Minh, who fought the French to win Vietnam independence, and followers of North Vietnam's Ho Chi Minh, a communist dictator indoctrinating its people full of lies against the Americans. Le Ly found out over time that the Americans were the least to be feared.
She did what she had to do to get out of Vietnam and come to America for a better life…and a better life she is definitely living. She runs a couple of nonprofit foundations she started up back in the 1980’s after she returned from visiting Vietnam and seen the conditions they were still living in: 1) East Meets West Foundation and 2) Global Village Foundation. Both of these foundations work at providing basics to the people of Vietnam and placing thousands of orphanages in homes, many of those left behind by American soldiers.
QUOTE: What we do, think, and feel lives after us through the lives we've touched. (p. 368) So true!!
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Book sequel: "Child of War, Woman of Peace" - continues the story of her life in America. (1993)
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Book-to-movie: “Heaven & Earth" (1993), directed by Oliver Stone, starring Hiep Thi Le and Tommy Lee Jones.… (altro)