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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - An unforgettable Voyage.Memoir of an 8-year old 'boat person' who fl ees post-war communist Vietnam in search of a father andbrother rumoured to have escaped to the West. Braving sea storms and pirates in a overloaded fi shingboat, Hiep and her younger sister are rescued by British sailors and interned in a series of horrifi c HongKong refugee camps. Surviving by their wits, these displaced children of the sea create their own primitivesociety amid the dispirited and desperate adults awaiting sponsors in the U.S.At the age of eight in 1979, the Vietnam-born actress and her seven-years-old sister were separated fromtheir parents and left their village in central Vietnam as boat people. Their mother and older brother stayedbehind with her other children. The sisters lived in refugee camps in Hong Kong for three months, where theywere reunited with their father. They then immigrated to California before reuniting with their fi ve othersiblings. Her mother fi nally reunited with the family four years later.Hiep was a premed student at UC-Davis, majoring in physiology, when she came to the open casting call with oneof her sisters for the Oliver Stone fi lm Heaven & Earth (1993) that was being held at San Jose State Universitybecause several of her friends were doing it for fun. She was one of the sixteen thousand Vietnamese Americansseen by casting scouts for the fi lm and was the one, out of the thousands, who got the starring role of Le LyHayslip. Despite having no acting experience, she had half-dozen callbacks before she was fi nally chosen toplay the role of Le Ly Hayslip between the ages of thirteen to thirty-eight.Since that time, She acted in several fi lms and television shows. She has graduated from college. She was theowner and operator of the China Beach Vietnamese Bistro in Venice, California. She is now owner and Chef ofLe Cellier Restaurant Wine Bar in Marina Del Rey, California. complications from stomach cancer on Dec. 192017 in Los Angeles Hiep passed away. She was 46.Above all, Hiep is the proud mother of two.Author Hiep Thi LeCo-founder Jill Powell'Since I've know her from , Hiep always turned something negative into a positive. As a child, she faced herdangers, adversities and self doubts with an innocence and sense of adventure which refl ects the true resilienceof refugee children separated from their families and left to fend for themselves.'Le Ly Hayslip (Heaven and Earth )'Most of us 'come-of-age' not just once, but many times as we navigate life's passages. Hiep's harrowingtrue-life journey from innocent village girl to street-wise refugee--told with charm, humor, and precociouswisdom--turns a boat-person's Lord of the Flies into a true Vietnamese Exodus: the portrait of a blossomingyoung American painted with a bamboo brush. Like a river fl owing to the sea, Hiep's story sweeps us past manyamazing people, places, and events that most of us can scarcely imagine. It's a voyage you won't want to miss.' Jay Wurts, coauthor of When Heaven and Earth Changed Places.…

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Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Daughter of the Sea | Hiep Thi Le | Taschenbuch | Kartoniert / Broschiert | Englisch | 2021 | Maple Leaf Publishing Inc | EAN 9781774190814 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, 36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr[at]libri[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu Print on Demand.…