Gimme the Money

Gimme the Money is partial autobiographical novel by Iva Pekárková about her time taxi-driving in New York City. It was published in Czech in 1996 by Nakladatelství NLN (NLN Publishing), under the name Dej Mi Ty Prachy (Gimme the Money). It was later translated into English by Iva Pekárková with help from her husband, Raymond Johnson, and published by Serpent's Tail through a grant from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Gimme the Money was also translated into German under the title, Taxi Blues, by Marcela Euler and subsequently published in 2000 by Malik Publishers. The novel is about a female Czech taxi driver Jindřiška, nicknamed Gin, and her life of navigating and finding a place in New York City and the taxi industry.

Gimme the Money

Gimme the Money is partial autobiographical novel by Iva Pekárková about her time taxi-driving in New York City. It was published in Czech in 1996 by Nakladatelství NLN (NLN Publishing), under the name Dej Mi Ty Prachy (Gimme the Money). It was later translated into English by Iva Pekárková with help from her husband, Raymond Johnson, and published by Serpent's Tail through a grant from the Czech Ministry of Culture. Gimme the Money was also translated into German under the title, Taxi Blues, by Marcela Euler and subsequently published in 2000 by Malik Publishers. The novel is about a female Czech taxi driver Jindřiška, nicknamed Gin, and her life of navigating and finding a place in New York City and the taxi industry.