Dom Ullis

Dom is a Bombay man of uncertain age who becomes an opium addict early in his life. A nominal Christian, Dom has no concerns about doing drugs, visiting brothels, and whittling away his life doing nothing in particular. Very little is known about Dom except that he disappears for much of the novel, reappearing only later on. Dom returns to the events of the novel in 2004, presumably now clean and sober after getting into trouble in New York, to see what has become of the people and places of his past. In reality, Dom is still an addict, and the novel comprises the content of his latest drug-induced dream.

Dimple

Dimple s a transgendered female, forced into a sex change as a young boy after the death of her mother and thereafter coming to be sheltered by, and keeping company with, Mr. Lee. From Lee Dimple learns...