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"Pantaleón and the Visitadoras is a famous 1973 novel by the Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, adapted for the screen in 1975 and 1999. It tells the story of Captain Pantaleón Pantoja, who receives a secret mission to organize a service of prostitutes -- known as "visitadoras&quo...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vargas Llosa, Mario, 1936-2025 (Author)
Other Authors: Adler, Heidrun, 1939- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:German
Published: Berlin : Verlag Volk und Welt, 1981.
Edition:Lizenzausgabe.
Subjects:
Brothels > Peru > Amazonas > Fiction.
Barracks > Peru > Amazonas > Fiction.
Amazonas (Peru) > Fiction.
Novels.
Humorous fiction.
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Summary:"Pantaleón and the Visitadoras is a famous 1973 novel by the Peruvian Nobel laureate Mario Vargas Llosa, adapted for the screen in 1975 and 1999. It tells the story of Captain Pantaleón Pantoja, who receives a secret mission to organize a service of prostitutes -- known as "visitadoras" -- to satisfy troops in the Amazon rainforest, thereby satirizing bureaucracy and military rigidity."--Wikipedia (Spanish).
Item Description:Translation of: Pantaleón y las visitadoras.
First licensed edition of Pantaleón y las visitadoras translated into German by Heidrun Adler was published: Düsseldorf : Claassen, [1974].
"3. Auflage, Lizenzausgabe des Verlag Volk und Welt, Berlin, 1981."--Title page verso.
Physical Description:315 pages ; 21 cm