Name: Raise Your Soul. A Personal History of Resistance
SKU: 64786896
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Author: Yanis Varoufakis
ISBN: 9781529970210

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Raise Your Soul. A Personal History of Resistance

Type

Physical Book

Author

Yanis Varoufakis

Publisher

Vintage

Year

2026

Pages

256

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x12.9 cm

ISBN13

9781529970210

Raise Your Soul. A Personal History of Resistance

Yanis Varoufakis (Author) · Vintage · Paperback

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Synopsis "Raise Your Soul. A Personal History of Resistance"

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 Danaë. Through their lives, Varoufakis not only lays bare his own political soul, but confronts the dark forces of authoritarianism that still haunt Europe and beyond, reigniting hope in all of us that we can rise once more.

Yanis Varoufakis

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Yanis Varoufakis is an essayist, activist, lecturer, and Greco-Australian politician considered the world's best-selling economist. A reputed academic, he was educated at the universities of Essex and Birmingham, has served as a professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, and currently teaches at the University of Athens.

He rose to fame in 2015 when, as the Minister of Finance of Greece, he confronted the eurozone countries over the Greek debt crisis. He recounted this fight against the troika in his autobiography Adults in the Room, published by Deusto in 2017 and named by The Guardian as "one of the 100 best books of the 21st century". He has published other bestsellers such as And the Weak Suffer What They Must? (Deusto, 2016), Another Now (Deusto, 2021), and is also the author of The Global Minotaur (Captain Swing, 2012) and Talking to My Daughter About the Economy (Destino, 2015).

Co-founder of the international movement DiEM25 and the Progressive International along with Bernie Sanders, he is a regular contributor to international media such as The Guardian. Business Insider considers him "the most interesting man in the world".

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