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Osama al-Eisa is a writer, publicist and researcher whose entire creative and professional life is closely focused on Palestinian issues - politics, history, geography, culture - centred on Bethlehem, the ancient city where he was born in a refugee camp in 1963.

The author's great small homeland is the inspiration and source of all his fiction and academic texts, and is reflected in the titles of his stories and novels. The writer immerses the reader in the deep and tragic stories of the glorious holy city through comic tales full of urban folklore, in which the real is intertwined with the incredible and mysterious. The heroes of this book, whether they are disadvantaged urban marginalised people or patients of a psychiatric hospital, historical figures or contemporary famous politicians, are by no means heroic. Through the stories of the madmen of Bethlehem, in all the diversity of their madness, frenzies, obsessions and sheer stupidity, the novel reveals the secrets of the real world of the Palestinians, in which, according to the writer, «it is impossible to survive without some degree of madness», which, in the end, became for them «the only way of resistance».