Raise Your Soul

Raise Your SoulCondition: BRAND NEW ISBN: 9781847929075 Format: Trade paperback (UK) Year: 2025 Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK Description: An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe A captivating portrait of number one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary lives of five women, and

Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9781847929075
Format: Trade paperback (UK)
Year: 2025
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK


Description:
An engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe



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 Danae. Through their lives, Varoufakis not only lays bare hi