The Separated Woman

THE SEPARATED WOMAN is an engrossing and challenging read not for the fainthearted. From deep within the nature of the world we live in, Sjogren takes his mystery/thriller into a bare, penetrating exploration by way of a single, thought-defying sentence.

The writer (narrator) is a displaced wanderer mostly lost to himself. One night he finds himself in a café at the edge of an area his landlord has warned him against. There he meets a local detective who vilifies the world with a tortured mi...