Os incurábeis

"I remember when I got to the crime scene I thought everyone had gone crazy." Thus begins this story of death, passion, and madness. One night in 2001, a prostitute was murdered in the neighborhood of Os Castros in A Coruña. The woman died bleeding and with the Cairo mark on her throat. Inspector Sánchez will not only have to solve that case, but also other similar ones that are repeated days later in the same neighborhood of A Coruña. Drawing on the black novel and the psychological novel, Antonio Tizón offers us a story in which questions such as these are asked: what to do with people suffering from serious mental illnesses? Are they healing or are they incurable? Are they normal or violent, dangerous people? How to treat them? The Incurables, which historically coincides with the aftermath of 9/11, creates a unique literary space in the A Coruña neighborhood of Os Castros, conceived as the symbolic microcosm of a sick society swarming with characters like Rubén, who stabs cats, or the unique psychiatrist Helena Salcedo.