Deadly Sins - Hermann Heiberg. Newly translated into English.

Deadly Sins
by Hermann Heiberg

What if the gravest sins wore the most familiar faces? In Deadly Sins (Todsünden), Hermann Heiberg delivers a haunting dissection of moral decay beneath the polished veneer of bourgeois respectability. Set in a society obsessed with appearances, Heiberg peels back the surface with surgical precision to reveal the quiet, suffocating violence of repression, pride, and fear.

Far from the grand theaters of history, these sins unfold in drawing rooms and dimly lit corridors-within family ties, friendships, and the delicate threads of reputation. With a psychological acuity that rivals Dostoevsky and a stark realism that anticipates modernist disillusionment, Heiberg crafts a narrative of internal battles more harrowing than any battlefield.

This is not a tale of redemption, but of recognition: a mirror held uncomfortably close to the reader's own instincts and evasions. Deadly Sins is literature at its most unsettling-unsparing, elegant, and ruthlessly true.