Audioraamat: Raise Your Soul: A Personal History of Resistance

This is a gripping book - written with compassion and wit - by a uniquely gifted and multi-faceted writer. Its a history of modern Greece, its a biography of an extraordinary family, and sometimes it reads like a thriller. Most of all though its a humble homage to the truly unusual women who have moulded and enriched Yanis Varoufakiss unusual life. I strongly recommend it -- Brian Eno A deeply heart-breaking, funny and enraging portrait * Greek Herald * Behind every good man theres a good woman. In Yanis Varoufakiss case, there are several. Written with a historians grasp of events, an economists rationalization of how things work, and most of all, a storytellers understanding of the human condition, this is not just their story, but ours -- Irvine Welsh I read with huge interest, enjoyment - and enlightenment -- Paul Cartledge Beautiful and inspiring, I couldn't put it down -- Rosie Holt A fierce work tracing Greeces past century war, civil war, occupation, dictatorship, resistance through five of the most powerful women in Varoufakiss life. ... Five women who tell truths, take risks, and protect family; women who organise despite illiteracy or social status; women whose resolve shows us how class differences in education, networks, and resources determine collusion or resistance, life or death. To read this book as memoir, biography, or autobiography, however, is to diminish its impact: this is an unmistakably political work that tells your story just as profoundly as it reveals mine. ... Raise Your Soul sits alongside Christos Tsiolkass Dead Europe, Marcel Ophulss The Sorrow and the Pity, and, of course, Costa-Gavrass Z ...To sit with Varoufakiss words is a gift: a masterful writer and orator, his practice champions the interconnectedness of the cultural and the civic -- Esther Anatolitis * Australian Book Review * A new book by Yanis Varoufakis, one of the most important political figures of our times, is always momentous -- Ken Loach