Fall From Away 2

He doesn't know who she is. She has known exactly who he is for five years.

Priya Raghunathan once flew eight thousand kilometres to thank a singer, and came home without saying a word. Now Seorin Group is opening its first factory in India — in Coimbatore, at the motor company where Priya coordinates everything — and at the top of the delegation list, in the same font as all the other names, is Kim Do-yun.

He gave up singing years ago. He has come to build a business. He has never heard of her. So Priya makes a rule: she will not be a fan in his office. She will not even look at him. And she will not tell anybody that she understands every word the Koreans say about her.

What follows is filter coffee he pretends to hate, a Tamil word that accidentally makes him her brother's brother-in-law, a veshti that will not stay up on Diwali morning, a night in a hospital corridor, and a love story that is almost too good to be true. Then the leaks begin. Someone is stealing from the company using Priya's login. Somebody is sending her messages at two in the morning. And the one person who can prove where she really was is eight thousand kilometres away, beside his mother's hospital bed.

A funny, aching Korean–Tamil love story about two families who never say I love you and only ask whether you've eaten, and about the difference between the person who gives you a perfect life and the person you still choose when life stops being perfect.

The second Fall From Away novel. Set in Coimbatore and Seoul.

Contents

• PART ONE — KOREA COMES TO COIMBATORE
• 1. Conference Room B
• 2. It Won't Work Here
• 3. Research
• 4. Machan
• PART TWO — LAMPS
• 5. Your Veshti Is Moving More Than You Are
• 6. Because You Shouldn't Be Alone
• 7. Not a Guest
• 8. He Doesn't Tell You Everything
• 9. I Want To
• 10. Two People Missing Each Other
• PART THREE — FALL FROM AWAY
• 11. Who Is She?
• 12. Eleven Forty-Eight
• 13. Angry Means You Still Care
• 14. The Room Where It Started
• 15. Which Home
• 16. Chestnuts
• Epilogue