Where Angels Fear to Tread is a one of a kind stories about love (but not real), about society (but not socialized and rather solitary), about passion (in a bad sense of the word) and about children and parents (how they do NOT care about each other).
Lilia, who was fed up with constant morality lectures of his mother-in-law, goes to Italy and finds there a man whom she is marrying later. Despite the fact, that all her relatives were against this marriage (because Gino was a commoner) Lilia still believes that she has found a true love and they would be walking on air (she didn’t care that she was 33 and her fiancée 21, but she so should to). But this marriage was the greater failure in her life and she couldn’t bear it, so she died giving a birth to Gino’s child who later also dies.
Despite the fact that the plot of the story is basically sad and even sorrow sometimes, the humor is quite often. It is exquisite British humor, which highlights some features and peculiarities of the characters who are either “John Bull to the backbone” or “dentist in a fairyland”, these character are so different and so similar at the same time.
The cultural background of the story is huge. It is a vivid canvas of British and Italian literature, architecture, music and, of course, mentality and family relationship. This book is definitely worth reading and thinking through its main messages because it is true to life and some vital truth are essential to learn like: “If we could answer their (parents) love not with gratitude but with equal love, life would lose much of its pathos and much of its squalor, and we might be wonderfully happy”. This story is unique because it gives the reader room for thinking about a wide range of problems both social, intercultural and personal.
