{"id":39833,"date":"2021-12-15T19:21:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/15\/books-explain-world-guardian-writers-share-best-nonfiction-reads-2021"},"modified":"2021-12-15T19:21:39","modified_gmt":"2021-12-15T10:21:39","slug":"books-that-explain-the-world-guardian-writers-share-their-best-nonfiction-reads-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=39833","title":{"rendered":"Books that explain the world: Guardian writers share their best nonfiction reads of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From a Jacobean traveller\u2019s travails in Sindh to the tangled roots of Nigeria, our pick of new nonfiction books that shine a light on Asia, Africa and South America<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Share your top recommendations for books on the developing world in the comments below<\/p>\n<p><strong>You Have Not Yet Been Defeated: Selected Works 2011-2021<\/strong><strong> <br \/>By <\/strong><strong>Alaa Abd El-Fattah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/dec\/15\/books-explain-world-guardian-writers-share-best-nonfiction-reads-2021\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From a Jacobean traveller\u2019s travails in Sindh to the tangled roots of Nigeria, our pick of new nonfiction books that shine a light on Asia, Africa and South America\u2022 Share your top recommendations for books on the developing world in the comments below&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2738,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[401,246,41,511,452,71,403,59,752,62,212,241,400,60,55,543,61,527,430,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-americas","category-asia-pacific","category-books","category-brazil","category-culture","category-egypt","category-global-development","category-history-books","category-india","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-nepal","category-nigeria","category-pakistan","category-philippines","category-politics-books","category-south-and-central-asia","category-travel","category-vietnam","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2738"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=39833"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39833\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39834,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39833\/revisions\/39834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}