{"product_id":"roper-matt-before-the-night-comes-2024-paperback","title":"Roper Matt: Before The Night Comes [2024] paperback","description":"\"My eyes are filling with tears. I'm transported back - as I often am -\u003cbr\u003enearly thirteen years, to a very different place, to the lonely side of a remote\u003cbr\u003eBrazilian highway, to a night so dark it felt like it would swallow us, to the\u003cbr\u003every first girl...\"\u003cbr\u003eIn 2012, after ten years working as a journalist, Matt had an experience in Brazil which\u003cbr\u003echanged his life. On a road trip with a friend in a remote rural part of the country, he saw\u003cbr\u003ea girl standing on the side of the motorway, who they discovered was just 11 and selling\u003cbr\u003eher body to truck drivers.\u003cbr\u003eRealising he had stumbled upon a hidden and unreported scandal, he gave up his staff\u003cbr\u003ejob and moved with his wife and young son to Brazil with the intention of documenting\u003cbr\u003ethis tragedy.\u003cbr\u003eHowever, he soon became involved in the lives of the girls and\u003cbr\u003espent the next ten years setting up safe houses along the motorway, the BR-116, which\u003cbr\u003ehe discovered was the worst road in the world for child prostitution. The BR-116 is Brazil's\u003cbr\u003elongest and busiest highway and the fourth-longest road in the world.\u003cbr\u003eAccording to a Government study, along its 2,700 miles there are at least 262 places\u003cbr\u003ewhere it is known children are sold for sex - or, on average, one every ten miles. The\u003cbr\u003eworst rate of child sexual exploitation on the BR-116 is along a 300km stretch in the north\u003cbr\u003eof Minas Gerais state and south of Bahia state known as the child prostitution corridor.\u003cbr\u003eMatt has also weaved the girls' stories throughout the book, so the reader gets to know\u003cbr\u003ethem and follow their journeys, as well as the journey Matt went on from finding one girl\u003cbr\u003eon the side of the road to the present day, with five 'Pink Houses' helping 500 girls a day.","brand":"Matt Roper","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":49008192225619,"sku":"9781915306784","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/matt-roper-roper-matt-before-the-night-comes-2024-paperback-9781915306784-57291504255315.jpg?v=1726703955","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/roper-matt-before-the-night-comes-2024-paperback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}