[In last week’s “Frankfurt Briefcase 2009,” the titles listed under the Sandra Dijkstra Agency are in fact being shopped by the Taryn Fagerness Agency. The titles being shopped by the Dijkstra Agency are below. For our full listing of Frankfurt titles, go to publishersweekly.com/FrankfurtBriefcase2009.
Also, Cristina Garcia is the author of The Lady Matador’s Hotel, not Ellen Levine.—Ed.]
Dijkstra Agency
The agency will have bestseller authors Lisa See and Mo Yan at the fair for the “Year of China” celebration, with See representing the U.S. and Yan representing China. As for the titles, in nonfiction, there’s The Great Religions: Different Paths up Different Mountains which, per the agency, provides a “21st century roadmap” for secular and religious alike to the great religions of the world by Steven Prothero. From Stanford history professor Ian Morris is War! What Is It Good For? which argues that war, in some historical instances, has led to positive change; rights sold in the U.K. From seafaring environmentalist Charles Moore and Cassandra Phillip is Plastic Ocean (Avery, 2010), about Moore’s discovery of the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a continent-sized accumulation of plastic waste floating in the sea. On the fiction front is Indu Sundaresan’s Shadow Princess (Atria, Apr. 2010), the third novel in the author’s historical Taj trilogy. From Chitra Divakaruni is One Amazing Thing (Hyperion, Feb. 2010), a novel about love, family and political upheaval; rights sold in France, Israel and Korea. From bestseller and Cosmo editor-in-chief Kate White is the stand-alone thriller Hush (HarperCollins, Mar. 2010).
