by Juan García Hortelano · Editorial Planeta · tapa dura · ISBN 9788408460978
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«Nuevas amistades» is the novel by Juan García Hortelano, published by Editorial Planeta in hardback (288 pages, in Spanish).
The novel portrays a group of young people from Madrid's upper bourgeoisie in the 1950s and 1960s, and the relationships, contradictions and social conventions that mark their environment. Through their lives, Hortelano offers a critical and insightful look at an affluent society in full transformation.
It is part of Planeta's «Nuestros Clásicos Contemporáneos» collection and won the Biblioteca Breve Prize in 1959.
For readers of contemporary Spanish fiction interested in the social portrait of Madrid's 20th-century bourgeoisie.
Juan García Hortelano was a Spanish writer. He was born in Madrid. His father was a doctor. When the Spanish Civil War broke out, he was sent with his siblings to Cuenca, only returning to Madrid in 1937 where he lived with his maternal grandparents. The libraries at school and home turned him into an avid reader. Following the war, he entered college in 1941, later studying law at Madrid University. He joined the Civil Service in 1953. Throughout his life, he dedicated himself to writing with fervour and discipline without abandoning his administrative job in Madrid. He cultivated friendships with writers and intellectuals of his generation: Juan Benet, Carlos Barral, Jaime Gil de Biedma, Juan Marsé and Ángel González.
