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Sofi Oksanen: Purge

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How to Jump Backwards and Forwards in Time

Sophie Coontz: Why did you decide to jump backwards and forwards in time rather than running chronologically through from the beginning to the end? "It's a bit boring to be chronological, to be honest. It's very old-fashioned way of writing" She says she was not thinking about chronology at all as she wrote this book. Do you write things in first person or do you redraft them when they're being rewritten? Did you go back and forward on your computer screen while doing it? If so, how many times would you have done that? I don't think about anything actually. So what are you doing if you're not thinking? Well, I

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