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Book cover of Other Names for Love
Other Names for LoveTaymour Soomro

Characters in Other Names for Love

4 characters, main characters first.

Main characters

  • Fahad

    A sensitive teenager taken to his family’s rural estate, whose summer there shapes the rest of his life.

  • Rafik

    Fahad's domineering father, who wants to toughen his son and later declines into dementia.

Supporting characters

  • Ali

    A local teenager enlisted to influence Fahad, with whom an attraction quietly grows.

  • Mousey

    Fahad's cousin, who lives apart on the estate with a man he calls his manager.