Pantaleón y las visitadoras

By Mario Vargas Llosa

Subjects: Spanish fiction, Peru, Literatura peruana, Translations into English, Perú, Novela, Officers, Fiction, general, Peru. Ejército, Fiction, historical, general, Perú Ejército, Fiction, suspense, Fiction, humorous, general, Armed Forces, Fiction, Peru, fiction, Prostitución, Novela peruana, Ficción, Perú. Ejército, Prostitution

Description: This 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 word of Captain Pantoja's remarkable achievements start to spread.