Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Mario Vargas Llosa 12,551 ratings
745 reviews
This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns he is to be sent to Peru's Amazon frontier on a secret mission for the army - to provide females for the amorous recruits. Side-splitting complications arise as world of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.
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FictionLatin AmericanSpanish LiteratureHumorNobel PrizeNovelsLatin American LiteratureClassicsLiteratureLiterary Fiction
243 Pages