query: original_language_of_work the two deaths of quincas wateryell
supports: Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. As the world's fifth-largest country by both area and population, it is the largest country to have Portuguese as an official language and the only one in the Americas. Bounded by the Atlantic Ocean on the east, Brazil has a coastline of . It borders all other South American countries except Ecuador and Chile and covers 47.3% of the continent's land area. Its Amazon River basin includes a vast tropical forest, home to diverse wildlife, a variety of ecological systems, and extensive natural resources spanning numerous protected habitats. This unique environmental heritage makes Brazil one of 17 megadiverse countries, and is the subject of significant global interest and debate regarding deforestation and environmental protection. Jorge Leal Amado de Faria (10 August 1912  6 August 2001) was a Brazilian writer of the modernist school. He remains the best known of modern Brazilian writers, with his work having been translated into some 49 languages and popularized in film, notably "Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands" in 1978. His work reflects the image of a Mestiço Brazil and is marked by religious syncretism. He depicted a cheerful and optimistic country that was beset, at the same time, with deep social and economic differences. Mestiço, in Colonial Brazil, the Portuguese-speaking part of Latin America, was initially used to refer to a person with both European and Native South American Amerindian blood only. Later, with both the introduction of African slavery by the Portuguese to Brazil and interracial mixing, other categories began to emerge. A novella is a work of written, fictional, narrative prose normally longer than a short story but shorter than a novel. The English word ""novella" derives from the Italian "novella", feminine of "novello", which means "new". The novella is a common literary genre in several European languages. The Two Deaths of Quincas Wateryell ( A Morte e a Morte de Quincas Berro D'água ) , is a 1959 Brazilian Modernist novella by Jorge Amado . In 2012 , it was republished in English as The Double Death of Quincas Water - Bray .
candidates: brazil english latin portuguese
answer: portuguese