The Cellist of Sarajevo

I've got to be honest. I just finished reading "The Cellist of Sarajevo" by Steven Galloway, and although it gave a lot of insight into a modern-day war-torn area that I know little about, and although it presented interesting characters, overall it was a disappointing read for me. The main reason was a lack of rising and falling action. There's supposed to be a built-up of suspense, a climax, and a resolution. I applaud any author that successfully breathes new life into that formula and breaks free from pattern, but that didn't happen in this particular book. I could put my finger on the intended climax if asked to, but I can't say that the author successfully built up to it, and there certainly wasn't a resolution afterward. Each character's stories just incorporated the event and moved on without much turbulence. And then the book just ended. I'm not one to insist on happy endings or neatly tied up ends if ambiguity is more fitting to the situation -- and in fact, I like realistic endings more than happy endings -- but I do expect that the state of things is somehow different at the end of the book than at the beginning. Even if events aren't different, characters' interpretations or perspectives should be. I suspect that the author merely meant to showcase one event in the life of these characters and simultaneously depict how nothing really stood out in the grand scheme of war, but the effect was simply uninspiring.