Raise Your Soul

Resumen del libro

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 LOACH

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 Dana . 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.

Biografía del autor

Yanis Varoufakis es un ensayista, activista, conferenciante y político greco-australiano considerado el economista más vendido del mundo. Académico reputado, se formó en las universidades de Essex y Birmingham, ha ejercido como profesor de Economía en la Universidad de Texas en Austin y en la actualidad imparte clases en la Universidad de Atenas.<br> Saltó a la fama en 2015 cuando, como ministro de Finanzas de Grecia, se enfrentó a los países de la eurozona por la crisis de la deuda griega. Esta lucha contra la troika la narró en su autobiografía Comportarse como adultos, publicada por Deusto en 2017 y nombrada por The Guardian como uno de los 100 mejores libros del siglo xxi . Ha publicado otros bestsellers como ¿Y los pobres sufren lo que deben? (Deusto, 2016), Otra realidad (Deusto, 2021), y es también autor de El Minotauro global (Capitán Swing, 2012) y Economía sin corbata (Destino, 2015).<br> Cofundador del movimiento internacional DiEM25 y de la Internacional Progresista junto con Bernie Sanders, es colaborador habitual de medios internacionales como The Guardian. La revista Business Insider le considera el hombre más interesante del mundo .