Lyt når som helst, hvor som helst

Nyd den ubegrænsede adgang til tusindvis af spændende e- og lydbøger - helt gratis

  • Lyt og læs så meget du har lyst til
  • Opdag et kæmpe bibliotek fyldt med fortællinger
  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals
  • Opsig når som helst
Start tilbuddet
DK - Details page - Device banner - 894x1036

Activities of Daily Living: A Novel

Sprog
Engelsk
Format
Kategori

Romaner

Finalist for the 2023 PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel Finalist for the 2023 Gotham Book Prize Longlisted for the 2023 Carol Shields Prize Longlisted for the 2022 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A Vogue Best Book of the Year

A "beguiling and brilliant" (Viet Thanh Nguyen) debut novel on the interconnection between art, work, care, and the passage of time.

How do we take stock of a life—by what means, and by what measure? This is the question that preoccupies Alice, a Taiwanese immigrant in her late thirties. In the off-hours from her day job, Alice struggles to create a project about the enigmatic downtown performance artist Tehching Hsieh and his monumental, yearlong 1980s performance pieces. Meanwhile, she becomes the caretaker for her aging stepfather, a Vietnam vet whose dream of making traditional Chinese furniture dissolved in alcoholism and dementia.

As Alice roots deeper into Hsieh’s radical use of time—in one piece, the artist confined himself to a cell for a year; in the next, he punched a time clock every hour, on the hour, for a year—and his mysterious disappearance from the art world, her project starts metabolizing events from her own life. She wanders from subway rides to street protests, loses touch with a friend, and tenderly observes her father’s slow decline.

Moving between present-day and 1980s New York City, with detours to Silicon Valley and the Venice Biennale, this vivid debut announces Lisa Hsiao Chen as an audacious new talent. Activities of Daily Living is a lucid, intimate examination of the creative life and the passage of time.

© 2025 W. W. Norton & Company (E-bog): 9780393881134

Release date

E-bog: 25. april 2025

Andre kan også lide...

  1. Signals of Distress: A Novel Jim Crace
  2. In the Courtyard of the Kabbalist: A Novel Ruchama Feuerman
  3. Funny Farm: A Sweeping Epic of the Sticks Jay Cronley
  4. The Murmuration Carlos Labbé
  5. So Far Back: A Novel Pam Durban
  6. Saratoga Trunk: A Novel Edna Ferber
  7. City of a Thousand Gates: A Novel Bee Sacks
  8. The Wizard of Loneliness John Nichols
  9. The Rabbits Sophie Overett
  10. The Secret Sister Fotini Tsalikoglou
  11. Halfway House: A Novel Katharine Noel
  12. The Gallery of Lost Species: A Novel Nina Berkhout
  13. Anger: A Novel May Sarton
  14. Split Estate: A Novel Charlotte Bacon
  15. Family Life: A Novel Akhil Sharma
  16. Pay the Piper: A Novel Joan Williams
  17. Inheritance: A Novel Lan Samantha Chang
  18. O My America!: A Novel Johanna Kaplan
  19. Stitch: A Novel Richard Stern
  20. Island (A Novel): A Novel Joan Schweighardt
  21. Look Back All the Green Valley: A Novel Fred Chappell
  22. The Whole Wide Beauty: A Novel Emily Woof
  23. You Are the Love of My Life: A Novel Susan Richards Shreve
  24. Dear Mrs. Lindbergh: A Novel Kathleen Hughes
  25. The Collected Novels Volume Two: A Serious Man, A Temporary Life, and A Prodigal Child David Storey
  26. Only Children: A Novel Alison Lurie
  27. Some Go Home: A Novel Odie Lindsey
  28. After the Fall: A Novel Victoria Roberts
  29. Mother of Pearl: A Novel Edward Swift
  30. Gone So Long: A Novel Andre Dubus
  31. Ice Fire Water: A Leib Goldkorn Cocktail Leslie Epstein
  32. Night Visitor: A Novel Gillian White
  33. Happy Ending: A Novel Francesca Duranti
  34. Daisies Joshua Senter
  35. The Comedown: A Novel Rafael Frumkin
  36. The Emancipated George Gissing
  37. Many Marriages Sherwood Anderson
  38. Afternoon of a Faun: A Novel James Lasdun
  39. Anabasis: A Journey to the Interior Ellen Gilchrist
  40. The Interpreter Diego Marani
  41. The Three Miss Kings: An Australian Story Ada Cambridge
  42. Seizure: A Novel Erica Wagner
  43. The Holding: A Novel Merilyn Simonds
  44. Winona : A tale of Negro life in the South and Southwest: Navigating race and resilience in the Jim Crow South: A powerful tale of identity and prejudice Pauline E. Hopkins
  45. A Life of Adventure and Delight Akhil Sharma
  46. The Heaven of Mercury Brad Watson
  47. The Sentimentalists: A Novel Johanna Skibsrud

Vælg dit abonnement

  • Over 600.000 titler

  • Download og nyd titler offline

  • Eksklusive titler + Mofibo Originals

  • Børnevenligt miljø (Kids Mode)

  • Det er nemt at opsige når som helst

Flex

For dig som vil prøve Mofibo.

89 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 20 timer/måned

  • Gem op til 100 ubrugte timer

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Prøv gratis
Den mest populære

Premium

For dig som lytter og læser ofte.

129 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • 100 timer/måned

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Unlimited

For dig som lytter og læser ubegrænset.

149 kr. /måned
  • 1 konto

  • Ubegrænset adgang

  • Eksklusivt indhold hver uge

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Ingen binding

Start tilbuddet

Family

For dig som ønsker at dele historier med familien.

Fra 179 kr. /måned
  • 2-6 konti

  • 100 timer/måned pr. konto

  • Fri lytning til podcasts

  • Kun 39 kr. pr. ekstra konto

  • Ingen binding

2 konti

179 kr. /måned
Start tilbuddet