&#8216;You&#8217;re 82 years old. You&#8217;ve shrunk six centimetres, you only weigh 45 kilos yet you&#8217;re still beautiful, graceful and desirable&#8217; &#8211; so begins Andr&#233; Gorz&#8217;s &#8216;open love letter&#8217; to the woman he has lived with for 58 years and who lies dying next to him. <p>As one of France&#8217;s leading post-war philosophers, Andr&#233; Gorz wrote many influential books, but nothing he wrote will be read as widely or remembered as long as this simple, passionate, beautiful letter to his dying wife.<p>In a bittersweet postscript a year after Letter to D was published, a note pinned to the door for the cleaning lady marked the final chapter in an extraordinary love story. Andr&#233; Gorz and his terminally ill wife, Dorine, were found lying peacefully side by side, having taken their lives together. They simply could not live without one another. <p>An international bestseller, <i>Letter to D</i> is the ultimate love story &#8211; and all the more poignant because it&#8217;s true.