Spanish publisher subverts court gag by using Don Quixote to recreate banned book

Finding Fariña website allows Spanish readers to read book about drug trafficking in Galicia while author Nacho Carretero and publisher face off legal action

Don Quixote famously tilted at windmills; now the Booksellers Guild of Madrid is using Cervantes’s 400-year-old novel to take a tilt at the Spanish court system, highlighting 80,000 words in Don Quixote to make the text of a recently banned book about drug smuggling available to readers online.

Nacho Carretero’s Fariña, an expose of drug trafficking in Galicia, was published in 2015, but publication and sales were halted last month after the former mayor of O Grove in Galicia, Jose Alfredo Bea Gondar brought legal action against Carretero and his publisher Libros del KO. Bea Gondar is suing over details in the book about his alleged involvement in drug shipping.

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