{"product_id":"the-body-of-the-soul-stories-9780300270938","title":"The Body of the Soul: Stories","description":"\u003cb\u003eA new collection of stories by the acclaimed Ludmila Ulitskaya, masterfully translated into English\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[A] magnificent collection . . . [by] a writer of boundless tenderness.\"--Geneviève Brisac, \u003ci\u003eLe Monde\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Centrifugal, pensive, often elusive stories by one of the greatest living Russian writers (and leading anti-Putinist). . . . The stories are marvels of economy and the unexpected twist, each a memorable tour de force. . . . A welcome introduction to the short fiction of an essential writer.\"--\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e While we can feel, know, and study the body, the soul refuses definition. Where does it begin and end? What does the soul have to do with love? Does it exist at all, and if so, does it outlast the body? Or are the soul and body really one and the same? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya. A woman believes that the best way to control her life is to control her death. A landscape photographer wonders if the beauty he has witnessed can triumph over decay. A coroner dedicated to science is confronted by a startling physical anomaly, a lonely widow experiences an extraordinary transformation, a woman whose life is devoted to language finds words slipping away from her. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In these eleven stories, artfully rendered into English by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky, Ulitskaya maps the edges of our lives, tracing a delicate geography of the soul.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Yale University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/31\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780300270938\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168","brand":"Ludmila Ulitskaya","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43111998816437,"sku":"9780300270938","price":15.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_109c6d43-ce12-40ed-b53f-dbd8ac0eed4f.jpg?v=1693926471","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-body-of-the-soul-stories-9780300270938","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}