Image: detail from illustration by Tomer Hanuka in Granta 122: Betrayal
Podcast: André Aciman
André Aciman & Yuka Igarashi
André Aciman reads from the work and speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about the story, the problem with unreliable narrators and modern poetry, and why self-deception and betrayal are good subjects for fiction.
40 years of Granta

The Silkworms
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Peace Shall Destroy Many
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Blue Sky Days
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

Vladimir in Love
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?

The Transition
What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know? What made him do what he did? Could it have all been for an ice cream bar, really? Will any of us ever know?
André Aciman
André Aciman is most recently the author of Harvard Square, which is published in 2013. He is the chair of the PhD Program in Comparative Literature at the CUNY Graduate Center and the director of the Writers’ Institute. ‘Abingdon Square’ is taken from a forthcoming book, Moral Tales.
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