Books by Marina Benjamin

En inspirerende og indsigtsfuld beretning om at nå milepælen 50 år uden selvbedrag eller sentimentalitet, men derimod med glæde, harmoni og blikket rettet mod fremtiden. Om at skære igennem og sige fra over for samfundets højtråbende krav om, at vi skal holde os unge og arbejde længere. Ansporet af sit eget brutale møde med klimakteriet vejer Marina Benjamin den snart midaldrendes glæder, sorger og livsmuligheder op mod hinanden, blandt andet med inspiration fra litteraturen og filosofien. Undervejs afslører hun desuden hormonbehandlingernes hemmelige og kvindefjendske historie og fortæller, hvorfor en dosis Jung er bedre end en tur i fitnesscenteret. At tage sig af sine til stadighed ældre forældre, sorgen og chokket forbundet med at miste en af dem, samtidig med at hun selv er forælder til en teenager og hendes egne begyndende skavanker er livsvilkår, som er fælles for mange midaldrende. Og midt i alt dette viser hun, at det er muligt at hengive sig til og favne overgangsalderen.

In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age mean today?Spurred by her own brutal propulsion into menopause, Marina Benjamin's clear-eyed account of our middle years takes inspiration from literature and philosophy to weigh the challenges and opportunities of mid-life. It offers an inspired and expanded vision of how to be middle-aged happily and harmoniously, without sentiment or delusion.

From the first landings on the moon to the implications of our cyber worlds, this unusual and intriguing book takes a provocative look at our fascination with space. Rocket Dreams is a fast-moving, fact-filled study of how all the dreams that went in to moonflight in the '60s have found new homes and mutated into new fascination with space.

Marina Benjamin grew up in London, feeling estranged from her family's Middle Eastern ways. But when Benjamin had her child she realized that she was losing her link to the past, inspiring a journey to Baghdad. This story reminds us that behind the headlines are real people whose lives are caught in the crossfire of prejudice and ambition.