Raise Your Soul : A Personal History of Resistance

by Varoufakis, Yanis | European history
Published 21/05/2026 by Vintage Publishing (Vintage) in the United Kingdom
Paperback | 304 pages
128 x 197 x 22mm | 228g

An intimate portrait of Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the history of his extraordinary family'Gripping and unforgettable. It reads like a thriller’ BRIAN ENODramatic 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 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.

‘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’ IRVINE WELSH'Beautiful and inspiring, I couldn't put it down' ROSIE HOLT'Fierce ... to sit with Varoufakis’s words is a gift' ESTHER ANATOLITIS