All for Nothing and a comparison with two other major novels (Woolf and Nemirovsky)

I continue to praise Walter Kempowski's 2006 novel, All for Nothing (NYRB publisher), and noting today two possible influences or points of comparison. I've already noted how this novel, about a family of landed gentry living on a small estate in eastern Germany in 1945, as the Russian troops approach from the east, in some ways calls to mind Lampedusa's great novel, The Leopard, as we see a vanishing way of life in its final stages, in a time of great political crisis. I'm also struck by the possible comparison with Nemerovsky's great Suite Francaise, which reads like an eyewitness, first-and account of the flight from Paris to the South as the Nazis took over the capital and imposed the Occupation. That novel captured the fear and terror of the refugees and their despair at leaving all of their belongings behind w/ no clear destination. Kempowski looks at the exodus from the war zone from the standpoint of those staying put, at least for the present; the von Globig family members cannot quite recognize the peril they're in as the Russian army advances; they've been in power and authority all of their lives and they have a naive trust in the power of the German army to fight off the attack, as they screen out any news they don't want to hear. They're not really Nazi sympathizers, but they dutifully display some Hitler portraits - and suddenly they're getting warnings that the Russians will shoot all landowners on sight and that they'd better leave immediately. But they look at the ever-growing stream of refugees that pass by their estate heading West and can't imagine joining with these dispossessed, few or none of them of the same social class. So this novel tells a story similar to that of Suite Francaise, but with a focus on those who can't or won't give up their privilege or even recognize their privileged status and how fragile that status may be. Another comparison, of a completely different order, is with Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse, which at first glance shares nothing thematically with All for Nothing other than that both are about families (Woolf's about a family on a summer vacation, along w/ many acolytes, artists and writers, in the Hebrides I think). Though Woolf's novel has no overt political context, note how both novels use what I'd call a kaleidoscopic third-person narrative, moving among the characters almost paragraph by paragraph, giving us many points of view an many moments of insight into the characters and their backgrounds, while making the narrative line clear and easy to follow because of specific details and sharp delineation of each of the many narrative voices.