What a German Thinks

A new book on New Zealand by German journalist Ingo Petz Kiwi Paradise takes the author to Palmerston North and the Caitlins, tells the story of a game of ping-pong with poet Sam Hunt and recounts an interview with mountaineering royalty Ed Hillary. Kiwi Paradise is an amusing account of a travelling German struggling to understand the complexities of the New Zealand psyche. “I mean, I liked New Zealanders, but it wasn’t always easy to understand their mysterious mentality, one that shifted somewhere between non-commitment, friendliness and indifference.” Kiwi Paradise is published only in German by Droemer Knaur.