| 1 | Sang | Ly | Protagonist and Narrator. |
| | Ki | Lim | Sang Ly's husband. |
| | Grandfather | | Sang Ly's grandfather. |
| | Daddy | | Sang Ly's father. |
| | Sopeap | Sin | Collects Sang Ly's rent. Aka: The Cow, The Rent Collector. |
| | Vadavamukha | | A Sky God with the body of a man and a head of the horse. |
| | Reak | K. Devy | Vadamukha's wife. The Blood Goddess. |
| 2 | Jorani | Kahn | One of the female pickers. |
| | Dara | Neak | Lena's distant cousin. |
| | Lucky | Fat | The abandoned child. |
| | Prak | Sim | An orphan child. The boy who taught Lucky to sort trash. |
| | Nisay | | Sang Ly's son. |
| 4 | Narin | Sok | Sopeap's cousin. |
| 5 | Teva | Mao | Sang Ly's neighbor. |
| 7 | Lena | | Sang Ly's mother. |
| 10 | Maly | | Lucky's friend. The girl Lucky and Sang Ly saved. |
| 11 | Preah B. | Som | A Cambodian author. |
| 12 | Jorani | Khan | Lena's friend. |
| 13 | Herman | Melville | An American author. |
| | Khun | Chean | The man who translated one of Herman's books. |
| 14 | Sy | Mao | An author. |
| 15 | Sarann | | The protagonist in Sopeap's story. |
| | Captain | Ahab | The protagonist in Sopeap's story who dies in the end. |
| | Kamol | | The man Sarann met. |
| 16 | Vanna | Mao | Teva's oldest daughter. |
| | | | Momordica Charantia - Tropical plant that grows in Cambodia. |
| | Tieb | | A custard apple. |
| 18 | Lewis | Carroll | The author of Alice in Wonderland. |
| | Robert Louis | Stevenson | A Scottish Novelist. |
| | Nhean | Uy | A Cambodian writer. |
| | Pran | Teo | Sang Ly's friend. |
| | Chey | | Sang Ly's friend. |
| 19 | Makara | Hong | The fruit vendor. |
| 20 | Yasunari | Kawabata | A Japanese author. |
| | Doctor | Chan | Nisay's doctor. |
| 21 | Rajam | Banerjee | The author of Tiger Road. |
| 22 | Uncle | Keo | Sang Ly's uncle who worked at the provincial government. |
| | The | Healer | Ba's friend. |
| 25 | Sovann | Son | The protagonist in Sopeap's story. A hunter. |
| | Samnang | Song | Soriya's husband. |
| | Channary | | Samnang's sister. |
| | Soriyan | Song | The real Sopeap Sin. |
| 27 | Chenda | Lai Sin | Sang Ly's new rent collector. |
| | Rathana | Sin | Sopeap's sister. |
| | Ponleak | | Rathana's husband. |
| 28 | Grandma | Sin | Sopeap's grandmother. |
| | Chimm | | Rangsey's guard. |
| | Heng | Rangsey | Chimm's boss. The owner of the house where Sopeap lived. |
| | Kiri | | Ponleak and Rathana's son. |
