Ohu Ena Thuru

La Douleur written by Marguerite Duras is translated to Sinhala. One of France's greatest novelists offers a remarkable diary of the Nazi occupation of Paris during World War II and of its eventual liberation by the Allies. Written in 1944 and first published in 1985 Duras's riveting account of life in Paris during the Nazi occupation and the first months of liberation depict the harrowing realities of World War II - era France. Duras by then married and part of a French resistance network headed by François Mitterand tells of nursing her starving husband back to health after his return from Bergen - Belsen interrogating a suspected collaborator and playing a game of cat and mouse with a Gestapo officer who was attracted to her.