Distracting, but without scale ... and a sense of unease

I have long wanted to read it, influenced by numerous awards, rave reviews and commercial success.
Young mother, I was also attracted by this story.
We go in easily, you want to know the result, and yet ... it is without pleasure that I took my book at night.
Here the main problem is that I have not managed to tie me to the characters.
Of course, history is well built, original, sometimes poignant. At the point of unrest elsewhere. This book me awake sometimes without reading I find the happiness that usually compensates for these tragic imaginary.
I found this a little dry and disappointing novel. The same frame, very good indeed, could have been dealt with more depth and humanity.
I liked the end ... partly relieved to have finished. I will not soon re-read another book by this author.