Cast of Characters

The Rabbit, Elisabeta Antonova, the Flag Holder’s mistress

Melanie Daisie Krasov, an American

Poleon, a motion picture director

Poleon’s ex-wife

The Mime, thought to be Dreschko, a Spanish Civil War comrade of the Flag Holder’s—but no one is certain

The Scream Therapist, Hristo Evanov

Kovel, the Dwarf’s taxi driver

Georgi, the Flag Holder’s son

Comrade Minister, the Second Secretary of the Communist Party

Katya, the Minister’s wife The Witch of Melnik, a seer

Major John, a Greek bureaucrat with an unpronounceable name

Gogo Musko, an ex-soccer star who runs the Milk Bar

Marko, a journalist

Punch, a portrait artist who has switched to landscapes

Rodzianko, a television actor

Maya, a teen-age admirer of Mister Dancho’s

Velin, Octobrina’s brother, a translator

The Lamplighter, a printer who published an underground newspaper during the war

The Trainer, Petar

Ivkov, the director of a funeral parlor

Blagoi, a cook

The Tomato, a traffic policeman

Stuka, a waiter

Baby Face, a police official

Green Socks, an internal security agent

Trench Coat, an internal security agent

The Prosecutor

The Defense Attorney

The Lady Judge

A Police Informer