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The Narrator
He starts out the novel as a young boy enraptured with his grandmother's stories about her homeland, France.
Charlotte Lemonnier
She is the narrator's grandmother, and the main storyteller of the novel.
Avdotia
She is the milkmaid in Saranza.
Beria
He is the Russian leader who stalked young women walking down the street in his black car.
The Narrator's Sister
She is a nameless, faceless girl who is also present at Charlotte's home during the summers in Russia.
Pashka
He is the only friend the narrator makes in school while he is studying French history.
Norbert
He is Charlotte's father, a respected doctor in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
Albertine
She is Charlotte's mother and Norbert's wife, twenty-six-years his junior.
Vincent
He is Charlotte's uncle who had worked as a journalist during the first World War, in which he eventually dies.
Fyodor
He is Charlotte's husband who is arrested on...
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