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Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
Captain Pantoja and the Special Service: A Novel | Mario Vargas Llosa
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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.
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This book is one of my Latin American recommendation of today. Mario Vargas Llosa is a Peruvian writer. His origins were as a journalists where he developed a very particular style. He has serious work suck as La fiesta del Chivo which addresses the Trujillo dictatorship. Captain Pantoja is his more humorous pie es about a soldier with a very unique task that he takes very seriously.