Raise Your Soul

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

"Gripping and unforgettable. 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, from 1924 to the present.

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

"Beautiful and inspiring, I couldn't put it down" — Rosie Holt

"Fierce ... to sit with Varoufakis's words is a gift" — Esther Anatolitis