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Who is Belaundia Fu? She is Marta's best friend at seven years old, the invisible friend who stays with her when things don't go well and not even grandmother is able to comfort her. Belaundia Fu is the sensible, ideal and infallible voice that, in Marta's adolescence, tells the truths to her face: for example, that this boy, Charlie, does not suit 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 she still doing there, Belaundia Fu? She is there, she is still there because she is the one who, from always, has told Marta her own story. Who is Belaundia Fu ?, we ask ourselves, although the really important question is: who is Marta? Bright and exciting, The proper names is an inquiry into the identity and 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 came to become who we are, on the very fact of growing up and the way we do it: learning to name what matters to us.