Hotarul Nestatornic by Ionel Teodoreanu

A lyrical evocation of childhood in the Moldavian countryside, it follows spirited siblings Dan and Olguța and their thoughtful friend Monica as they test the fragile boundary between play and responsibility, mischief and conscience, and the first stirrings of love; through sunlit games, family tensions, and small moral reckonings, their idyllic world reveals how quickly innocence gives way to self-knowledge and the diverging paths of growing up.