1999 METERS ABOVE SEA

  • A female con artist story – a heroine you will follow with sheer delight!
  • 150,000 copies sold since publication!
  • 1,4 MIO copies sold of her previous three novels altogether!
  • English sample translation will be available soon.
  • Recommended by New Books in German.

Heading south, chasing freedom without limits.

The self-discovery trip to Bali? Samara did not find anyone. The trendy agency in Berlin? As dull as any other job. Samara knows what she no longer wants but what she does want she is not quite sure of. Maybe a life where she does not feel like a stranger?

Now she has bright orange hair, a beautiful old car, and a new name wherever she goes. And she is aiming high, really high, up to the Swiss Alps, to St. Moritz. That is where a stunning man with ice blue eyes, whom she met in Berlin and cannot get out of her head, comes from. St. Moritz is full of beautiful, wealthy people, and in the middle of it all is Samara, who no longer goes by Samara, and who is not an imposter but a successful artist.

Then, suddenly, the handsome man reappears. And maybe the story is only just beginning.

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  • Publisher: Rowohlt Hardcover
  • Release: 28.08.2026
  • ISBN: 978-3-498-00771-3
  • 368 Pages
  • Author: Caroline Wahl

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Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl , born in 1995 in Mainz, grew up near Heidelberg. She studied German philology in Tübingen and German literature in Berlin, before working at several publishing houses. In 2023, her debut novel  22 Bahnen was published, for which she received awards such as the Ulla-Hahn Author's Prize and the Grimmelshausen Promotion Prize. It was also named the Favorite Book of the Independent Booksellers 2023. With her books Windstärke 17 and Die Assistentin , she achieved landmark success, holding top positions on the bestseller lists for months. Caroline Wahl lives in Kiel.