Raise Your Soul

An intimate portrait of Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the history of his remarkable family

'A gripping history of modern Greece and an unforgettable biography of an extraordinary family. Written with compassion and wit, it reads like a thriller’ BRIAN ENO

Dramatic in scope and deep in feeling, Raise Your Soul traces three generations swept up in the whirlwind of history, across a century of occupation, civil war, Cold War fracture and economic crisis.

At its heart are Eleni, Anna, Trisevgeni, Georgia and Danaë – the women who shaped
the visionary economist most, and whose resilience and courage inspire us to resist the forces of authoritarianism that still haunt our world.

‘Written with a historian’s grasp of events, an economist’s rationalisation of how things work and, most of all, a storyteller’s understanding of the human condition, this is not just Varoufakis’s story, but ours’ IRVINE WELSH

'Fierce ... to sit with Varoufakis’s words is a gift' ESTHER ANATOLITIS

'Beautiful and inspiring, I couldn't put it down' ROSIE HOLT