Perdido: A Fragment

On one level, Perdido tells the story of a troubled family: a discontented husband and wife and the teenaged son who was-but is no longer-a musical prodigy. On another, it is the story of the isolated Norwegian resort known as Perdido, and of the impossible, dreamlike things that happen there. Perdido is a place where the rules of ordinary life no longer apply, where reality is malleable and infinitely strange. It is a place where "you get what you didn't know you wanted" and where lives are altered forever. For the unhappy couple invited to attend-and for the teenaged son awaiting their return-it is the place where a marriage ends and a life filled with alternate possibilities begins.