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God's Gift. A novel by Halldór Kiljan Laxness.
The story is about Bersi Hjálmarsson, Íslands-Bersi, who is a herring speculator, but his role model is the shipowner Óskar Halldórsson. The story takes place in the 1920s and 1930s and deals in a humorous way with well-known events in business and politics, especially the history of herring. The narrator is a young writer who also deals with the herring fishery, but Íslands-Bersi is the main protagonist. The story says about him: "In the word of mouth he was ... considered to have the largest herring fleet in the North, many herring factories, more salting piers than other men, and the largest; in addition to countless valuables in other places. But I doubt that ever in all these years a penny has remained in his pocket long enough for him to call it his in the evening."
The story is about Bersi Hjálmarsson, Íslands-Bersi, who is a herring speculator, but his role model is the shipowner Óskar Halldórsson. The story takes place in the 1920s and 1930s and deals in a humorous way with well-known events in business and politics, especially the history of herring. The narrator is a young writer who also deals with the herring fishery, but Íslands-Bersi is the main protagonist. The story says about him: "In the word of mouth he was ... considered to have the largest herring fleet in the North, many herring factories, more salting piers than other men, and the largest; in addition to countless valuables in other places. But I doubt that ever in all these years a penny has remained in his pocket long enough for him to call it his in the evening."