A haunting and lingering read, The Last Movement by Robert Seethaler is a journey of reflection, remorse and resignation. Gustav Mahler, the Austrian-Bohemian composer and arguably the greatest conductor of his generation finds himself on an Atlantic crossing from New York back to Europe. Swathed in blankets, Mahler sits on the cold and bleak deck of the Amerika, plagued by chills and buffeted by the unforgiving weather.