An intimate portrait of Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the history of his extraordinary family<\/b><\/p>\n
'Gripping and unforgettable. It reads like a thriller’ <\/b>BRIAN ENO<\/p>\n
Dramatic in scope and deep in feeling, Raise Your Soul<\/i> 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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
‘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’ <\/b>IRVINE WELSH<\/p>\n
'Beautiful and inspiring, I couldn't put it down' <\/b>ROSIE HOLT<\/p>\n
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