Salva Alemany is a writer and musician from Valencia. His novels include “La suerte no existe,” “Éire,” “Alacrán,” “Una mirada Perdida,” ..
and the latest one, “Lapsus.” In this interview he tells us about it and many other issues.
AL: Your new novel is entitled Lapsus. What can you tell us about it and where did the idea come from?
SA: In the 90s I met a priest in the Nazaret neighborhood, in the south of Valencia. Years later, when we had already lost contact, this priest was arrested for heading an organization dedicated to drug trafficking. That story kept going around until I decided to write “Lapsus,” trying to imagine how that could happen, what led a priest from a small impoverished neighborhood to deal cocaine. “Lapsus” is also the story of that neighborhood, of its people, of its recent history, a place abandoned and run down by political negligence, corruption, and savage capitalism.
