Full name: Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: A Novel

Author: Mario Vargas Llosa Year: 1973 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Humor, Classic, Contemporary Culture: Latin-American Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374522360 0374522367

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. Similar books: The Discreet Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa The Time of the Hero by Mario Vargas Llosa Conversation in the Cathedral by Mario Vargas Llosa The Neighborhood by Mario Vargas Llosa The Bad Girl by Mario Vargas Llosa The Green House by Mario Vargas Llosa Death in the Andes by Mario Vargas Llosa A World for Julius by Alfredo Bryce Echenique The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta by Mario Vargas Llosa On Heroes and Tombs by Ernesto Sabato Deep Rivers by Jose Maria Arguedas The Winners by Julio Cortazar The Tunnel by Ernesto Sabato Explosion in a Cathedral by Alejo Carpentier Dream of Heroes by Adolfo Bioy Casares The Storyteller by Mario Vargas Llosa In Praise of the Stepmother by Mario Vargas Llosa Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver Post Office by Charles Bukowski We're All Damaged by Matthew Norman