{"id":33907,"count":3,"description":"Vietnam has a rich literary tradition that dates back centuries. Many books on Vietnam delve into the country's history, culture, and politics, offering insight into the experiences of its people and the events that have shaped their nation.\r\n\r\nWe have an interview on <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/best-books\/vietnam-war-karl-marlantes\">Vietnam War books<\/a>, a war which caused great social and political upheaval in South East Asia in the 1960s and 1970s.\r\n\r\nElsewhere, <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/vietnamese-cooking-any-day\/\"><em>Vietnamese Cooking Any Day<\/em><\/a> was one of our best cookbooks of 2019. For poetry <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/book\/call-me-my-true-names-collected-poems-by-thich-nhat-hanh\/\">Call Me By My True Names<\/a> by Vietnamese Zen master Tich Nhat Hanh is one of the best books for an introduction to <a href=\"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/religion\/buddhism\/\">Buddhism<\/a>.\r\n<h4 class=\"author-name\"><\/h4>","link":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/category\/world\/asia\/vietnam\/","name":"Vietnam","slug":"vietnam","taxonomy":"category","parent":5616,"meta":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/33907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/taxonomies\/category"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories\/5616"}],"wp:post_type":[{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?categories=33907"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/book?categories=33907"},{"href":"https:\/\/fivebooks.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books_like_this?categories=33907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}