An intimate portrait of Yanis VaroufakisÕs political awakening, told through the history of his extraordinary family ‘Gripping and unforgettable. It reads like a thrillerÕ 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 Dana‘ Ð 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. ÔWritten with a historianÕs grasp of events, an economistÕs rationalisation of how things work and, most of all, a storytellerÕs understanding of the human condition, this is not just VaroufakisÕs story, but oursÕ IRVINE WELSH ‘Beautiful and inspiring, I couldn’t put it down’ ROSIE HOLT ‘Fierce … to sit with VaroufakisÕs words is a gift’ ESTHER ANATOLITIS