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"Who is Belaundia Fu? She is seven-year-old Marta's best friend, the invisible friend who stays with her when things don't go well and not even her grandmother can console her. Belaundia Fu is the sensible, ideal and infallible voice that, in Marta's adolescence, tells her the truth to her face: for example, that this boy, Charlie, is not good for her. But when Marta has already turned twenty-two, when she has already graduated, when she is beginning to make the decisions that will mark the rest of her life, what is Belaundia Fu still doing there? Who is Belaundia Fu, we ask ourselves, although the really important question is: who is Marta? Luminous and moving, Proper Names is an inquiry into identity and the relationship we establish with the world around us. Dominated by a narrative voice of exceptional maturity, Marta Jiménez Serrano's first novel reflects on how we come to become who we are, on the very fact of growing up and the way we do it: by learning to name what is important to us." - Translation provided by NLS.