Captain Pantoja and the Special Service

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Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) (orig. Spanish Pantaleón y las visitadoras) is a relatively short comedic novel by the acclaimed Peruvian writer Mario Vargas Llosa. It deals with the eponymous Captain Pantoja's astonishingly efficient drive to bring a service of prostitutes to accommodate the desires of the men of the Peruvian armed forces who are stationed in what is portrayed as a strangely aphrodisiac Amazon jungle.

v • d • e Works by Mario Vargas Llosa Novels: The Time of the Hero (1963) · The Green House (1966) · Conversation in the Cathedral (1969) · Captain Pantoja and the Special Service (1973) · Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977) · The War of the End of the World (1981) · The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta (1984) · Who Killed Palomino Molero? (1986) · The Storyteller (1987) · In Praise of the Stepmother (1988) · Death in the Andes (1993) · The Notebooks of Don Rigoberto (1997) · The Feast of the Goat (2000) · The Way to Paradise (2003) · The Bad Girl (2006) Short story collections: The Cubs and Other Stories (1959) Essays: The Perpetual Orgy (1975) · The Temptation of the Impossible (2004) Essay collections: A Writer's Reality (1991) · A Fish in the Water (1993) · Making Waves (1997) · Letters to a Young Novelist (1997) · The Language of Passion (2001)