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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Translation of: Pantaleâon y las visitadoras.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE</b> <p/>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.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Mario Vargas Llosa</b> is Peru's foremost author and the winner of the 2010 Nobel Prize in Literature. In 1994 he was awarded the Cervantes Prize, the Spanish-speaking world's most distinguished literary honor, and in 1995 he won the Jerusalem Prize. His many distinguished works include <i>The Storyteller</i>, <i>The Feast of the Goat</i>, <i>Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter</i>, <i>Death in the Andes</i>, <i>In Praise of the Stepmother</i>, <i>The Bad Girl</i>, <i>Conversation in the Cathedral</i>, <i>The Way to Paradise</i>, and <i>The War of the End of the World</i>. He lives in London.</p>

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