Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

Name: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa

By Mario Vargas Llosa

Pages

Rating

3.97

Year

1973

Fiction Humor Latin American Novels Spanish Literature Nobel Prize

Description

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.