Placeres cárnicos/Meaty Pleasures

M nica Lav n ha publicado diez novelas, doce colecciones, tres trabajos de ficci n Ya y cinco libros de no ficci n; ha obtenido algunos de los mas importantes galardones literarios, incluyendo el Premio de Novela Iberoamericano Elena Poniatowska (2010). Esta selecci n la presenta a los lectores de habla inglesa. He elegido relatos publicados en diferentes colecciones, aquellos que me marcaron con mayor hondura por su resuelta mirada del cuerpo humano y su deseo.
Espero que mis traducciones posean tanto la gracia de los textos originales como de su autora. Deseo que estos relatos tambi n te marquen.

- Dorothy Potter Snyder (escritora y traductora), agosto del 2021

M nica Lav n has published ten novels, twelve collections, three works of YA fiction, and five nonfiction books; she has won some of Mexico's most important literary honors, including the Elena Poniatowska Ibero-american Novel Prize (2010). The present selection introduces her to an English-language readership. I have chosen stories originally published in several different collections, those that left the deepest mark on me for their unflinching gaze at human desire and the body.
I hope my translations possess the grace of both the original texts and their author. I hope these stories wound you too.

- Dorothy Potter Snyder (writer and translator), August 2021