The Amber Tablets
Kon, Andrea
Three tiny pieces of amber as small as medicinal tablets, one the colour of clear honey with a fly petrified at its centre, one dark as treacle toffee, and one delicately carved into the shape of an eagle's talon.Inside the freezing Amber Room, 150 slave labourers, including Simeon Karminsky are tasked with dismantling the world-famous mosaic panels for shipment from Leningrad to the Baltic. While his fearful fellow labourers and their guards ...