Complex sentence: D'Aguiar's first novel, "The Longest Memory" (1994), tells the story of Whitechapel, a slave on an eighteenth-century Virginia plantation and won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.
Split into simpler sentences: D'Aguiar's first novel, "The Longest Memory" (1994), tells the story of Whitechapel, a slave on an eighteenth-century Virginia plantation. The book won both the David Higham Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.