{"product_id":"9781780225791","title":"Don Quixote's Delusions: Travels in Castilian Spain","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA humorous and affectionate look at modern Spain, and a celebration of the country's greatest book, from the pen of a brilliant young writer.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen in 1987 Miranda France spent a year living in Madrid, the post-dictatorship ebullience was at its height.  Pornography and soft drugs were legalised alongside more basic freedoms, such as divorce, party-affiliation and kissing in the street. In 1998 she returned to make a journey through the great cities and towns of central Spain - Madrid, Toledo, Segovia, Salamanca and others. With the new prosperity, much has changed. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut much has also endured, as she learns from the people she meets, who include a private detective, a shepherd, various nuns, two belly dancers and a Castilian separatist.  She also discovers that Cervantes' DON QUIXOTE' published in 1605 and the most translated book after the Bible - is a work of genius which still helps to explain the Spanish character: today's Spaniards still suffer from Don Quixote's delusions, and are as stubborn, inflexible and unrealistic as they have always been.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orion Publishing Group, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47135403999472,"sku":"9781780225791","price":4.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781780225791_p0.jpg?v=1763711471","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781780225791","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}