My name is Lalo, a piece of gold.

Author: Ruthan Loom Publication date: 2025 Book genre: Story and Novel Publisher: Dar Jalsa Number of pages: 280 Format: Paperback About the novel: A highwayman entered the house, threatened the father, so he sold his daughter in exchange for two handfuls of lentils. That was the first disappointment, but Lalo is like all strong women who are made of loyalty, strength, and love. She smiled and looked defiantly into the eyes of the highwayman; she was scared and sad but did not want to make him feel victorious. From that moment, she resolved to challenge life and win as befitting heroines. But the first sale was followed by a second and a third, and she ended up in a ship’s hold, carried to be sold in the slave market. Not a minute passed since she left her father’s house except she thought of how she would buy her freedom and return to her family with gold, so her father would become one of the wealthiest men in his village, and her motto was: "My family, even if they neglect me, are honorable." But life is good at playing and not easily defeated, so she soon placed a despicable, strange, noble man in her path, a lover she did not know had died for her, and another willing to face fire for her. But one day, it became clear how mistaken she was, for she was never a slave, but why did no one tell her? My name is Lalo, ... a novel about a land she loves and rejects you, a land she loves but cannot accept you, and a story of passionate love whose godfather is death, its heroine a woman who loved children and was loved by them but refused to have children, a woman who never knew the word impossible.