The Orphan Sky By Ella Leya

The Los Angeles Review of Books describes The Orphan Sky “as authentic, disturbing and brilliant as The Kite Runner.”

Set in the Middle East, The Orphan Sky mirrors the ancient Azerbaijani Legend of Maiden Tower.

Once upon a time when the evil Shah of Darkness ruled over the Land of Fire,
when the orphan sky peered at the Caucasus Mountains from the black dome of sorrow…

A young piano prodigy Leila from a priviliged family meets a Bohemian artist and dissident Tahir. They create a clandestine salon of two, searching for new ways of creative expression and freedom, unveiling the ambiguities between music and art, friendship and love.

The relationship between Leila and Tahir has been revealed, and Leila faces an impossible choice. Will she compromise her heart? Will she allow darkness into her soul? Entrapped by her talent and her gender, how much will Leila sucrifice for her music, her beloved, her dream, freedom?