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An emotional, precise text full of class rage, turning the blink between life and death into a universe of possibilities, into life itself refusing to give up.» Alana Portero\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"485\" data-end=\"543\"\u003e«Here is a strange sentence: I knew what it is like to be dying.»\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"545\" data-end=\"1053\"\u003eIn November 2020, just a few months before publishing her first novel, the author was close to dying. On an ordinary Saturday, at home, without knowing it, she and her partner were dying. A leak in the boiler released carbon monoxide, and the gas was putting them to sleep until Marta, barely able, got up to go to the bathroom. There she collapsed and hit her head. 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She is Marta’s best friend at seven years old: the invisible friend who, in those moments when things don’t go as planned and not even grandma can comfort her, sits with her and waits until she feels better. Belaundia Fu is the sensible, ideal, and infallible voice that, when Marta is sixteen and even though she prefers not to listen, tells her the hard truths: for example, that boy, Charlie, is not good for her. But when Marta is already twenty-two, when she has graduated, when she is starting to make the decisions that will shape the rest of her life, what is Belaundia Fu still doing there? She remains because she is the one who, from the beginning, narrates Marta’s own story. Who is Belaundia Fu?, we ask; yet, the question that truly matters is: who is Marta?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLuminous and moving, Los nombres propios is an exploration of identity and the relationship we establish with the world around us. 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