"In this book, Sabine Kuegler looks back on her life."
— Spiegel Bestseller

"A story that seems from another time, but precisely because it is so relevant, it is all the more impressive."
— Katharina Theml

"In her new book ... she also recounts how she returned to the jungle for another five years in 2012. At the time, she was seriously ill; Western doctors had already given up on her, and she sought and found healing in the rainforest."
— RND

★Czech and Simplified Chinese rights sold.
★A brand-new work from internationally bestselling author Sabine Kuegler!
★Within a short time after its release in November 2023, it has sold over 50,000 copies and quickly climbed the Spiegel bestseller list and the German Amazon bestseller charts.
★Sabine Kuegler grew up in the jungles of West Papua. She wrote about her experiences there in the international bestseller Jungle Child, which sold millions of copies worldwide and was published in over 30 languages.
★This is a work of narrative nonfiction about cultural conflict, the power of the jungle, and the search for self-identity. Sabine Kuegler tells of her journey seeking healing, happiness, and her place in life between two vastly different cultures.
★English translation samples are available.

Sabine Kuegler, known as the "Jungle Child" and torn between two cultures, returns repeatedly to Papua throughout her life—to the place where she grew up. During one of these journeys, she falls seriously ill, is considered incurable by doctors, and makes one last desperate attempt to save herself: she leaves Germany once again and goes back to the jungle to find healing. There she experiences adventures that many would find hard to believe. It is only after five years that she returns and, for the first time, speaks of her search for healing, happiness, and her place in life. Sabine Kuegler, whose worldwide bestseller Jungle Child touched millions of readers, long questioned her identity between cultures. In doing so, her unique life may also offer her the chance to become a bridge between cultures.

"My story began on the day my father discovered the Fayu people, a tribe that had been stagnant in its development for centuries. It was also the beginning of the inner collision of two worlds. For within me I carry the culture, the psychology, the mentality, and the spirituality of two societies that are so contradictory and so different from one another that they would have to belong on different planets."

Sabine Kuegler was born in Nepal in 1972. At the age of five, she moved with her parents, both linguists, to the jungle of West Papua, Indonesia, where she spent her childhood and youth. The family lived there with a then little-known indigenous tribe, the Fayu. At 17, Sabine Kuegler left the jungle and completed her schooling in Switzerland. In 2005, her first book Jungle Child was published—a worldwide bestseller translated into over 30 languages. In 2012, ill and given up by doctors, she returned to the jungle, where she lived for nearly five years with various tribes in the deepest rainforest of Papua New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, eventually finding healing. Today, Sabine Kuegler works as an entrepreneur and advocates against social and cultural injustices.