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