A captivating portrait of number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the extraordinary lives of five women, and the West’s tumultuous history from 1924 to the present.
Eleni put an arm around him and said: ‘Come, come, life is ahead of us. Raise your soul now. We have much to do.’
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.
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Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance
This work is a masterpiece! I've read all of Mr. Varoufakis' books, and while I've admired his activism, his ideas, his take on economics, and politics, I've never thought of him a particularly gifted writer, per se. Until now. I'm not qualified to review or critique this …
This work is a masterpiece! I've read all of Mr. Varoufakis' books, and while I've admired his activism, his ideas, his take on economics, and politics, I've never thought of him a particularly gifted writer, per se. Until now. I'm not qualified to review or critique this work; all I can say is that if you don't read it, you're depriving yourself of a rare and delicious treat. Carpe diem!
- Authors:
- Varoufakis, Yanis
- Year Published:
- 2025
- Country of Publication:
- United Kingdom
- Format:
- Hardback
- ISBN:
- 9781847929068
- Number of Pages:
- 304
- Publication Date:
- 02/10/2025
- Publisher:
- Vintage Publishing
- Language:
- English
- Place of Publication:
- London
- SKU:
- 9781847929068