"Dej mi ty prachy" (1996), translated by the author herself into English as "Gimme the Money" (2000), was about Gin, a Czechoslovakian taxi driver in the US, based on Pekárková's experience driving a taxi in New York City.Pekárková travelled to Thailand in 1988 and 1989 to study the refugee camps there, the inspiration for her novel "Třicet dva chwanů" ("Thirty-two Kwan" 2000).