N.D.Williams’ Books

All who read this fascinating but disturbing novel must come away with a sense that we are losing our grip on order. If the center cannot hold all is lost. Our world will spin out of control.To those who make the big decisions about society I urge you to take some time off and spend a week end reading this novel. It will wake you up.



In the sub world that Williams so incisely explores are communities bound together by fear,doubt and terrible loneliness.

People come here from thousands of simpler socities and are plunged into the boiling waters of New York like some lobster intantly converted into prestigious food for the new super race.



However native New Yorkers beware. The immigrants may seem like unthinking walking zombies but they are skilled in surviving. It’s the old law of the jungle: the fittest survive and they can wreck the smooth Madison Ave world.



People in Third World countries were not surprised that someone would fly planes into a building. They like in a world where developing unusual ways of defeating the ruling classes is an everday pastime.



This is an intense,well written novel dealing with very important issues. Read it. Remember ” The Words of the Prophets are written on subway walls” as Simon and Garfunkel told us so soulfully in ” Sounds of Silence”



I applaud Williams for his courage in writing this novel and for putting it out for us to read.
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• From Amazon.com–my comment on Prash and Ras

Two intriguing novellas. The first one ‘Planet of Ras’ hauntingly evokes a real life story I read of years after its publication of the mysterious disappearance of a young American woman.

In Williams story it’s a Geraman woman on the verge of suicide who chooses to step into the Jamaican sub culture world of Rastafarianism. An unlikely trio of healer, artist-painter and master drummer lead her to love and accept a different rhythm of life. She understands what it is to marvel at the joys of nature and to know what true family means.

Williams’ conveys the several levels of reality underlying the tiny ,fragile group. There is serenity sometimes challenged by tensions. There is the vision of an ideal community balanced by the realism that they can be so easily crushed by the very powrful and real forces of the orthodox society ( Babylon). In the end we are moved by both the groups strengths and their vulnerability.

There may yet come a time when we might see Williams as a prophet of a coming time when true community built on shared values will be the predominant belief of our culture.

‘What Happening There, Prash’, tells the story of another societal clash. This time an Indo-Guyanese couple escapes from the stultifying restrictive Socialist regime of Guyana to the dazzling materialistic lights of New York. Prash’s wife Sookmoon eagerly tastes the delights of being a ‘liberated’ woman.Sadly Prash has to learn that behind the bright lights there are terribly dangerous deals. He may have left one society’s evils to take up another.

These stories give us insights into the pain and emotional trauma that modern life brings to even the simple and innocent.
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