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Sometimes you can't help but think that our memories are similar to instant photos, just short and immediate fragments. In the spring of 1964, "I" met photographer Jan Sen, who worked for an American magazine. The two of us had a brief friendship. After that, he suddenly disappeared. Some people said that he went to Mexico, taking all the photos with him, leaving no trace of his existence. Thirty years later, "I" accidentally found a photo of the two of us, and just at this time, Jan Sen came back. Is this a coincidence? Is it just that the spring of 1964 was as bad as the spring of 1994? "I" met Jan Sen again, and the reunited friends once again fell into the memory and tracking of the past...

"Honeymoon" was published in 1990 and is Modiano's fifteenth novel. In the summer of August, a forty-year-old man was traveling in Milan and heard that a French woman committed suicide in a hotel room in Milan. He wanted to know more details about this tragedy, but accidentally discovered that this woman looked familiar. He was lost in reminiscing about the past. After returning to Paris, he arranged a disappearance, leaving his relatives and friends to rediscover the traces of Ingrid Tyson and her husband Rigo Tyson. The story of Ingrid's life takes him back in time, when the couple had fled the war and were taking refuge in a hotel on the Côte d'Azur...