The body of the soul

"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? ... These are questions posed by the characters who inhabit this book of stories by the award-winning Russian writer Ludmila Ulitskaya."--