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 presenttime locales Chicago the Balkans New Orleans Germany Brazil and the narrative revolves around a protagonist whos caught up in attempts to reassemble the fragments that constitute his life. By day hes a neurobiologist who researches learning and memory which then informs his acts of nighttime selfexamination.The SerboCroatian 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 Mea 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.