Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
by Mario Vargas Llosa
Title:
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Author:
Mario Vargas Llosa
Format:
Paperback
Number of pages:
256 pages
Publisher:
Faber and Faber Ltd
ISBN-13:
9780571148189
EAN:
9780571148189
Classifications:
Literature: history and criticism
Weight (g):
328
Dimensions (mm):
197 x 127 x 15
Publication Country:
United Kingdom
Language:
English
Condition:
New
Price:£8.24
4 copies in stock
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Description
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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