Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Mario Vargas Llosa
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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.
Genres: FictionLatin AmericanSpanish LiteratureHumorNobel PrizeNovelsLatin American LiteratureClassicsLiteratureLiterary Fiction
243 Pages

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