Captain Pantoja and the Special Service
A Novel
ISBN10: 0374522367
ISBN13: 9780374522360
Trade Paperback
260 Pages
$19.00
CA$25.99
This delightful farce opens as the prim and proper Captain Pantoja learns that he has been selected by the army for a secret mission on Peru's Amazon frontier. His pride turns to dismay, however, when he discovers that his orders are most unusual: to create a "special service" of females to quench the amorous longings of the recruits in the military's isolated border garrisons. on a secret mission for the army—to provide females for the amorous recruits.
Pantoja, ever the model soldier, applies the best ot his army training to the situation, and soon he has succeeded beyond anyone's expectations, whipping his corps into a military machine of unmatched discipline and efficiency. But despite his constant efforts at secrecy, his mission is somehow becoming better known than he—or his superiors—would like. By turns sidesplitting and thought-provoking, Captain Pantoja and the Special Service tells of the complications that arise as word of the remarkable Captain Pantoja and his team of beautiful 'specialists" starts to spread.
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Praise for Mario Vargas Llosa:
"Vargas Llosa's fiction is distinguished by his wit, his taste for irony and his disposition to engage the complexities of existence with an insight that disdains glib moralizing or ideological rigor."—Robert Stone, The New York Times Book Review
"In the star-studded world of the Latin American novel, Mario Vargas Llosa is a supernova."—Raymond Sokolov, The Wall Street Journal
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CAPTAIN PANTOJA AND THE SPECIAL SERVICE (Chapter 1)
"Wake up, Panta!" Pochita is saying. "It's eight o'clock already. Panta, Pantita."
"Eight already? God, I'm tired," yawns Pantita. "Did you sew on my new stripe?"
"Yes, Lieutenant,...
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