Publishers Weekly reports that Viking has won a seven-way bidding war for Danielle Trussoni‘s debut novel, Angelology (no word yet on who will be the editor). Agent Eric Simonoff of Janklow & Nesbit handled the auction, selling world English rights (excluding Canada). Simonoff has also already sold foreign rights in Brazil, Canada, Germany, and Italy.
PW says the book “has been gaining buzz as a Da Vinci Code-esque work; it follows a young nun in upstate New York who, in uncovering a correspondence between the former mother superior and Abigail Rockefeller, unwittingly reignites an ancient war between a society of angelologists (a group that studies angels) and the Nephilim (the monster-like descendants of angels and humans). The book pulls from a variety of religious and mythical histories.” PW also quotes Simonoff as saying it “blends biblical lore, the Orpheus myth, the apocryphal Book of Enoch, and the fall of the rebel angels, with bravura storytelling.”
Trussoni’s first book was the memoir Falling Through the Earth, which the New York Times named one of the Ten Best Books of 2006.