{"product_id":"9781948954259","title":"American Sfumato","description":"\u003ci\u003eAmerican Sfumato\u003c\/i\u003e consists of nine mesmerizing stories, each designed to function independently and form a unit with the rest. The action is set in several present-time locales (Chicago, the Balkans, New Orleans, Germany, Brazil), and the narrative revolves around a protagonist who's caught up in attempts to reassemble the fragments that constitute his life. By day, he's a neurobiologist who researches learning and memory, which then informs his acts of night-time self-examination.The Serbo-Croatian version was published in Montenegro and Serbia in 2015, and a Slovenian translation was released in 2016. In 2016, American Sfumato was nominated for the Meša Selimović Prize, the most prestigious award for a novel published in Bosnia, Croatia, Montenegro, or Serbia, and in 2017, it was shortlisted as a Montenegrin entry for the European Union Prize for Literature.","brand":"Tortoise Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46546006474993,"sku":"9781948954259","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9781948954259_p0.jpg?v=1765847857","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781948954259","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}