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Ekeby

Volume I of the Trilogy of Forgotten Dreams

By Marc Wagenbach

A literary novel of memory, family secrets, queer identity and the magic of life. 

Max Grünbaum has returned to Ekeby, the old house at the edge of the forest, where he lives with his husband, Hieronymus. This was meant to be a new beginning: quiet, garden, light — a life beyond the old exhaustion. But since his return, Max has started hearing voices again. Forgotten dreams rise to the surface. And when Lea van Hoorn appears at the door one day, searching for her missing grandfather Willem, a story begins to unfold that has long been hidden.

An old diary. A boy named Jozef. A woman who placed duty above everything else. And an estate that has preserved more than memories. As present and past begin to blur, Ekeby becomes the setting for an uncanny search: for truth, guilt and love — and for a child who once stopped dreaming.

Ekeby is a novel about a house that does not forget, about the return of what has been repressed, and about a dreamer searching for a new, vulnerable truth in a world falling apart.

Publication: 1 November 2026
Languages: German · Dutch · English