American Sfumato 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 Mesa Selimovic 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.