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There Are No Rules Blog by the Editors of Writer's DigestHow Memory Loss Builds Suspense in The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant, Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro’s 2015 foray into Arthurian-inspired fantasy, is not the first book you would think of as a suspenseful novel. But Jane K. Cleland’s principles of building suspense with memory loss explain how the device heightens tensions in novels like this one.

Karen Krumpak

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