{"product_id":"raise-your-soul","title":"Raise Your Soul","description":"Condition: BRAND NEW\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781847929075\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Trade paperback (UK)\u003cbr\u003eYear: 2025\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: RANDOM HOUSE UK\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn engrossing portrait of #1 bestseller Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary history of his family and the tumultuous twentieth century in Europe\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA captivating portrait of number-one bestselling author Yanis Varoufakis's political awakening, told through the extraordinary lives of five women, and the West's tumultuous history from 1924 to the present.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEleni put an arm around him and said- 'Come, come, life is ahead of us. Raise your soul now. We have much to do.'\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDramatic in scope and deep in feeling, \u003ci\u003eRaise Your Soul\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAt its heart are the women whose resilience, defiance and courage inspired the visionary economist most- Eleni, Anna, Trisevgeni, Georgia and Danae. Through their lives, Varoufakis not only lays bare hi","brand":"RANDOM HOUSE","offers":[{"title":"Default","offer_id":41528772198533,"sku":"PR397710","price":54.3,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0562\/0213\/3637\/files\/image_TNXB99B489BC.jpg?v=1771988881","url":"https:\/\/smartfoxbooks.co.nz\/products\/raise-your-soul","provider":"Smartfox Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}