Complex sentence: Shteyngart emigrated to the USA in 1979 and was brought up with no television in the apartment he lived in and no spoken English, and did not shed his thick Russian accent until the age of 14.
Split into simpler sentences: Shteyngart emigrated to the United States in 1979 and was brought up with no television in the apartment he lived in and no spoken English. He did not shed his thick Russian accent until the age of 14.