by Mario Vargas Llosa · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408461111
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«Pantaleón y las visitadoras» is the novel by Mario Vargas Llosa, published by Planeta in hardcover (278 pages, in Spanish).
Captain Pantaleón Pantoja, a recently promoted officer, receives the secret mission to organize a prostitution service for the troops in the Peruvian Amazon. Based in Iquitos, his obsessive dedication ends up overflowing military secrecy. The novel addresses with satire and humor duty, morality, and corruption in Peruvian society.
Originally published in 1973, this 1996 edition belongs to the collection Nuestros clásicos contemporáneos.
With its blend of satire and social criticism, it is suitable for readers of Latin American fiction aged 12 and up.
Jorge Mario Pedro Vargas Llosa, 1st Marquess of Vargas Llosa was a Peruvian novelist, journalist, essayist, and politician. Vargas Llosa was one of the most significant Latin American novelists and essayists and one of the leading writers of his generation. Some critics consider him to have had a more substantial international impact and worldwide audience than any other writer of the Latin American Boom. In 2010, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant images of the individual's resistance, revolt, and defeat".
