Captain Pantoja And The Special Service
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
In the sweltering jungles of the Peruvian Amazon, a dutiful and meticulous army captain receives the most unusual orders of his career — to secretly organise a mobile prostitution unit for the troops stationed in remote outposts. Mario Vargas Llosa's Captain Pantoja and the Special Service is a razor-sharp satirical comedy that chronicles the bureaucratic absurdity of military life, following the hapless Captain Pantoja as his clandestine operation spirals gloriously out of control, attracting unwanted media attention and threatening to unravel his carefully ordered life. Beneath the uproarious comedy lies a searing critique of institutional hypocrisy, sexual repression, and the collision between rigid social convention and human desire. Vargas Llosa employs a virtuosic narrative structure — blending military dispatches, radio broadcasts, and letters — to build a portrait of a man undone by his own efficiency. A titan of Latin American literature and Nobel Prize laureate, Vargas Llosa crafts a novel that is simultaneously a farce and a deeply human story; one that leaves the reader questioning just where duty ends and absurdity begins.
Author: Mario Vargas Llosa
Format: Hardback
Genre: Modern fiction
Condition remarks:
Condition: Good. Jacket: Worn/faded - no tears. Page Condition: Yellowed with tanning. Markings: none. Binding condition: Binding intact.
In the sweltering jungles of the Peruvian Amazon, a dutiful and meticulous army captain receives the most unusual orders of his career — to secretly organise a mobile prostitution unit for the troops stationed in remote outposts. Mario Vargas Llosa's Captain Pantoja and the Special Service is a razor-sharp satirical comedy that chronicles the bureaucratic absurdity of military life, following the hapless Captain Pantoja as his clandestine operation spirals gloriously out of control, attracting unwanted media attention and threatening to unravel his carefully ordered life. Beneath the uproarious comedy lies a searing critique of institutional hypocrisy, sexual repression, and the collision between rigid social convention and human desire. Vargas Llosa employs a virtuosic narrative structure — blending military dispatches, radio broadcasts, and letters — to build a portrait of a man undone by his own efficiency. A titan of Latin American literature and Nobel Prize laureate, Vargas Llosa crafts a novel that is simultaneously a farce and a deeply human story; one that leaves the reader questioning just where duty ends and absurdity begins.