{"product_id":"american-sfumato-9781948954082","title":"American Sfumato","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\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 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.","brand":"Tortoise Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51360293060951,"sku":"9781948954082","price":11.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781948954082.jpg?v=1754127243","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/american-sfumato-9781948954082","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}