{"product_id":"don-quixotes-delusions","title":"Don Quixotes Delusions","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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57318728597886,"sku":"NW9780753813843","price":9.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780753813843.jpg?v=1778725697","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/products\/don-quixotes-delusions","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}