A deceptively peaceful psychological novel from the “Japanese Irvine Welsh,” notorious brawler Shu Fujisawa. The thirty-year-old hero of the novel “Water Wears Stones” works at a newspaper. specializing in materials about pets, is considering whether to move to the obituary newspaper Swastika, and is planning to get married. The thought of the upcoming wedding, that. that he will have to change his entire way of life plunges him into horror, tests his psyche for strength in the most cruel way.