The book Osoro Festa is the first work of a new collection aimed at young people. In the Traola collection created by Elkar, three works have been published: this is the polyhedral novel Tears in Rain from Sierra i Fabra (translated into Basque from Olasagasti) and the novel by Oihana Iguaran Barandiaran Hormak.

Sofia, the main protagonist of this novel, is a 16-year-old girl. Andrea attends a party in a house where the atmosphere, alcohol, passion and attraction lead him to sex with a boy. It seems, but Sofia gets pregnant.

The novel reads quickly, there are lots of conversations and short chapters. This brings the reader at full speed from the nervousness, pleasure, joy or anguish and anxiety of the protagonists. We move from one situation to another in a situation where talking about the views of Sofia and Andrea speeds up the story even further.

The Fiesta is divided into two sections: on the one hand, the Swimming Pool section, which tells the activities prior to the festival and those that have taken place during it; and, on the other, the Swimming Section, which collects the events after the festival, but also its consequences. The first tranche is much lighter. The second, on the other hand, is much more serious. Sofia believes she is pregnant, her concern is verified and then she must make a decision.

Jasone Osoro has long taught us the experience that reflects the youth world in his works and makes books legible and attractive to them. In Festa we are talking about the pregnancy of young people, but also about the relationships between young people, how to act in these cases, what is the role of parents, and above all about the leaps that can occur in the development of a person. And all of this in a book that young people are going to read very well, in a work that catches you a vivid and agile narrative, like the waves catch Sofia: “He felt the wave had thighs and his body narrowed between the thighs. The wave felt that it had its arms and that its body, as if it were a ball, was throwing these hands on the ground. He felt that the wave had teeth and that they died in the body.” But not the wave, life has bitten Sofia the day after the party.