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In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru''s Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission - he must find females for the amorous recruits. Yet complications arise as word of his achievements starts to spread, and he finds himself battling against his wife, religious zealots and the Army that gave him the mission in the first place.

Through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, Mario Vargas Llosa''s Captain Pantoja and the Special Service combines political satire with humour, morality with uproarious sexuality.

Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

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    A Paperback / softback by Mario Vargas Llosa, Gregory Kolovakos, Ronald Christ

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 22 June 1987
      ISBN-13 9780571148189
      978-0571148189
      ISBN-10 0571148182
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: fiction Books by Mario Vargas Llosa

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      In this delightful farce, the prim and proper Captain Pantoja is sent to Peru''s Amazon frontier on a secret Army mission - he must find females for the amorous recruits. Yet complications arise as word of his achievements starts to spread, and he finds himself battling against his wife, religious zealots and the Army that gave him the mission in the first place.

      Through a wonderfully comic montage of letters, military documents, radio broadcasts, dream sequences and dialogue, Mario Vargas Llosa''s Captain Pantoja and the Special Service combines political satire with humour, morality with uproarious sexuality.

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