Captain Pantoja and the Special Service - Hardcover

Mario Vargas Llosa

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060144947 ISBN 13: 9780060144944

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1978

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Mario Vargas Llosa is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include The Storyteller, The Feast of the Goat, Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, Death in the Andes, In Praise of the Stepmother, The Bad Girl, Conversation in the Cathedral, The Way to Paradise, and The War of the End of the World. He lives in London.

Language Notes:

Text: English, Spanish (translation)

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1978
• ISBN 10: 0060144947
• ISBN 13: 9780060144944
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 244