sentences:  Published in 1955, "The Man With White Eyes" broke with the socialist realism in Poland by showing that under an officially promoted image of Warsaw, a world of crime existed untouched by an inefficient police.The book was Tyrmand's biggest success and one of the most successful novels in Poland in the 1950s, to the point that it ran out copies in weeks and it reached up to 10 and even 20 times the purchase price in the black market.Later it became also an international hit (especially in the Eastern Bloc) and was translated into more than 20 european languages.