A captivating portrait of Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening told through the history of
his family from 1924 to the present. 'Written with a historian's grasp of events an
economist's rationalization of how things work and a storyteller's understanding of the human
condition this is not just Varoufakis' story but ours' IRVINE WELSH When Yanis Varoufakis
was eight years old his uncle made him a model airplane out of matchsticks and cigarette
papers all he could find in his cell. Yet to his dismay his mother Eleni broke open the
fragile gift revealing a hidden message: instructions for fellow dissidents ahead of their
forthcoming court martial. It was 1969 and Uncle Panayis was a political prisoner captured and
tortured for resisting the military dictatorship. Dramatic in scope and deep in feeling Raise
Your Soul is an intimate portrait of three generations caught up in the whirlwind of history.
It is also a remarkable narrative spanning one hundred years beginning in post-colonial Egypt
in the 1920s and then tracing Greece's tumultuous century through Nazi occupation communist
resistance civil war Cold War fracture fascist dictatorship socialist revival and
present-day economic crisis. At its heart are the women whose resilience defiance and courage
inspired the visionary economist most: Eleni Anna Trisevgeni Georgia and Danaë. Through
their lives Varoufakis not only lays bare his own political soul but confronts the dark
forces of authoritarianism that still haunt Europe and beyond reigniting hope in all of us
that we can rise once more. 'Beautiful and inspiring I couldn't put it down' ROSIE HOLT 'A
new book by Yanis Varoufakis one of the most important political figures of our times is
always momentous' KEN LOACH
