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Captain Pantoja and the Special Ser - by Mario Vargas Llosa (Paperback)

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  • WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 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.
  • About the Author: Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936.
  • 260 Pages
  • Fiction + Literature Genres, Literary

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About the Book



Translation of: Pantaleâon y las visitadoras.



Book Synopsis



WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

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 the Author



Mario Vargas Llosa was born in Peru in 1936. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature "for his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat." He also won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor. His many works of fiction and nonfiction include The Feast of the Goat, In Praise of the Stepmother, and Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter, all published by FSG. He died in Lima at age 89 in 2025.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.9 Inches (H) x 5.9 Inches (W) x .7 Inches (D)
Weight: .8 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 260
Genre: Fiction + Literature Genres
Sub-Genre: Literary
Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
Format: Paperback
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa & Vargas Llosa
Language: English
Street Date: October 1, 1990
TCIN: 90807737
UPC: 9780374522360
Item Number (DPCI): 247-40-6567
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported

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