Complex sentence: Written in a relentless but devastatingly powerful prose the tragic decline of Mary and Dick Turners' fortunes become a metaphor for the whole white presence in Africa and is shot through with passages of startling and shocking honesty about the fault-lines in the white psyche.
Split into simpler sentences: Written in a relentless but devastatingly powerful prose, the novel's treatment of the tragic decline of Mary and Dick Turner's fortunes becomes a metaphor for the whole white presence in Africa. The novel is peppered with passages of startling and shocking honesty about the fault-lines in the white psyche.