An Atlas of Impossible Longing

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An austere, learned man who has abandoned Calcutta for a tiny town and has established a herbal potions and pills factory there

Kananbala:

His wife, also from Calcutta

Kamal:

Amulya’s older son, his second in command at the factory

Manjula:

Kamal’s wife

Nirmal:

Amulya’s younger son, an archaeologist, a wanderer

Bakul:

Nirmal’s daughter

Mukunda:

An orphan boy whom Amulya decides to take into the family

Meera:

A distant relative, a young widow who lives with the family primarily to take care of Bakul

Larissa Barnum:

An Anglo-Indian woman who lives across the road

Digby Barnum:

Larissa’s husband, the British manager of the mines that fringe the town

Tommy:

A young Anglo-Indian man, a relative of Larissa’s who comes visiting

Khansama:

The Barnums’ cook

Gouranga:

A servant in the household of Amulya and Kananbala

IN MANOHARPUR

Bikash Babu:

An elderly eccentric who lives in a once-grand riverside mansion in rural Bengal