RAISE YOUR SOUL

A captivating portrait of Yanis Varoufakis s political awakening told through the history of his family from 1924 to the present A new book by Yanis Varoufakis one of the most important political figures of our times is always momentous KEN LOACHWhen 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 Thr