Han Kang’s (한강) “Convalesence” (회복하는 인간) – the best of its so-so genre

Convalescence, by Han Kang, is perhaps her most formulaic work in translation – it fits it well with late Pak Wansuh’s Identical  Apartments: Jeon Seung-hee’s “Kong’s Garden, Bae Suah’s Green Apples; and a host of novellas that all essentially tell the same story, albeit in slightly different ways – the story of the alienation of the young woman…